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Through national updates and practical case studies this conference focuses on improving end of life care for people with Cardiovascular Disease and Heart Failure through a person centred approach. Patients with cardiovascular conditions, including Heart Failure have been disproportionately impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The conference will reflect on how we can improve care for people at the end of life, embed high quality supportive care pathways, improve communication about end of life care & advance care planning, and understand progression of Heart Failure: predicting and recognising last days of life and managing uncertainty. The conference will also discuss best practice in symptom control.
“Heart and circulatory diseases cause around a quarter of all deaths in the UK; that’s more than 160,000 deaths each year, or 460 each day – that’s one death every three minutes”
“It’s estimated that as many as 920,000 people are living with heart failure in the UK”
“Palliative care can address the holistic needs of patients with heart failure, and integrated palliative care in heart failure management has been indicated to improve outcomes for patients. Despite known benefits for integrated palliative care in heart failure management, implementation is poor across the majority of global health services.”
Why attend?
Attending this conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve end of life care for people with cardiovascular
disease and heart failure - Learn from the experience of someone living with heart failure
- Reflect on national developments and learning
- Understand what excellence in end of life care for heart failure looks like in practice
- Improve the approach to talking to people with heart failure about end of life care & advance care planning
- Learn from services developing pioneering models of palliative care for patients and their carers living with advancing heart failure
- Ensure effective psychological support
- Reflect on progression of Heart Failure: Predicting and recognising last days of life and managing
uncertainty - Understand how you can improve symptom control, hydration & prescribing
- Ensuring consistency in nursing practice - the Heart Failure Specialist Nurse (HFSN) competency framework
- Best Practice Core Components in Cardiac Palliative Care
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Support CPD professional development and act as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
100% of delegates who attended the previous date would recommend it to a colleague.
