The conference will help medical professionals feel more confident when working with people with hearing loss  and  will focus on sharing information on how the end of life experience can be significantly improved. The conference includes deaf awareness taster and there will be opportunities to network, create support circles and raise the profile of palliative care services.   A panel of expert speakers include David Hyslop, OBE,  Robin Paijmans, Macmillan Clinical Psychologist, Tina Swani, Chief Executive, St. Mary’s Hospice, Karen McCarthy, Senior Palliative Care Social Worker, St. Mary’s Hospice, and Isabel Quinn, National End of Life Care Programme Manager.

Claire Wade, bid’s Palliative Care Coordinator said, “‘Hosting the Palliative care conference is specifically aimed at transforming how patients with hearing loss are treated during their end of life experience. When someone is diagnosed with a terminal illness, it can be a distressing time for both the patient and their family. Now consider how these fears may be magnified by a deaf patient, who is struggling not only to come to terms with his or her illness, but is also finding it hard to communicate with their care professionals.  The conference will provide a toolkit of information and advice that professionals can use to support their patients through their final journey in a dignified way”.

If you would like more information about the conference or our Palliative Care services, please contact Emma Snape: emma.snape@bid.org.uk, or phone 0121 246 6100 or fax 0121 246 6125.

Attachments

• palliative_care_conference.pdf
• Conference_Booking_Form.doc

Published 22nd January 2010