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Palliative care beyond cancer: Redressing the balance

Marie Curie

Marie Curie

Cost: Free
Palliative care beyond cancer: Redressing the balance

Half-day conference on palliative care for people with conditions other than cancer.

Everyone should have the right to high-quality palliative care when they have a terminal illness, yet evidence suggests there are unique barriers preventing people with conditions other than cancer from getting the care and support they need.

The problems include under-developed links between condition specialists and palliative care specialists, which can inhibit referrals for palliative care; lack of understanding of what palliative care is, and what it can achieve for patients with non-cancer conditions; and the unpredictable trajectories of some non-cancer conditions, which can make it difficult to know when to initiate palliative care.

On 27 November 2017, Marie Curie will bring together a panel of expert speakers to discuss these crucial issues. The half day conference will explore the barriers to, and benefits of, palliative and end of life care for people with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, heart failure and Motor Neurone Disease.

Guests will hear from:

  • Dr Carol Stone, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Marie Curie Northern Ireland

  • Prof Sonja McIlfatrick, Head of School of Nursing, Ulster University

  • Prof Kevin Brazil, Professor of Palliative Care, Queen’s University Belfast

  • Prof George Kernohan, Professor of Health Research, Ulster University

  • Dr Kate Flemming, Senior Lecturer, University of York

Along with our rising age profile, more and more people are living with terminal illnesses in Northern Ireland every year. With demand for palliative care services only likely to keep on growing, it is crucial that our community of service providers, academics, researchers, HSC professionals and voluntary sector groups work together to improve end of life care provision for people with conditions other than cancer.

To register for the event, please click here.

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Riddel Hall
185 Stranmillis Road
Belfast
BT9 5EE
United Kingdom

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Craig Harrison

Palliative care beyond cancer: Redressing the balance