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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 more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK, that’s nearly 170,000 deaths each year – an average of 460 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK.”
“There is extensive evidence that the distress faced by those living and dying with advanced heart failure is similar, and in many cases more severe, than those dying of cancer. Yet very few patients are referred for palliative or hospice support by their primary care or hospital cardiology teams.”
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
- Understand the impact of Covid-19 and how we can support heart failure patients through the pandemic
- 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
- Deliver co-speciality supportive care pathways
- 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
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
