Irish Association for Palliative Care Annual General Meeting and Seminar

Date:Thursday 27th November

Location: Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin

Contact: Application forms available from info@iapc.ie or 01 2310566

Hospice and Palliative Care a Human Right

Programme

09.30 Registration and Tea/Coffee

10.00 Annual General Meeting of the Irish Association for Palliative Care (for IAPC members only)

11.00 Introduction and Welcome

11.15 Keynote address Human Rights in Palliative Care: A destiny of birth?
Dr Anne Merriman MBE, FRCP Hospice Africa, Uganda
12.00 Progress in Palliative Care: An all Ireland perspective on influencing and sharing ideas.
(*)How can a Managed Clinical Network influence Palliative Care for all.
Liz Henderson RN MSC, PG Cert LLL, Cert HSM Network Nurse Director Northern Ireland Cancer Network (NICaN)
(*)Being mindful – strengthening an all-Ireland vision for 21st Century palliative care
Dr. Philip J Larkin PhD, RNT, RN
Professor of Clinical Nursing (Palliative Care)
University College Dublin and Our Lady’s Hospital Ltd

12:45 Lunch

13:45 Concurrent sessions
(*)Palliative Care for All: Integrating Palliative Care into Disease Management Framework
Marie Lynch MSc, DipCOT, Programme Development Manager; Irish Hospice Foundation
(*)Research in Palliative Care- a human right?
Dr Clare White MD MRCP (UK) SpR Palliative Medicine
(*)Advanced Symptom Management
Dr Regina McQuillan. Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Francis Hospice, Dublin

15:00 Plenary
Palliative Care for all: an ongoing challenge. Raising awareness and understanding of the needs – medical, social, practical, spiritual – of people living with terminal diagnosis and their families
Dr Robert Twycross DM FRCP,
Emeritus Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University
Director, palliativedrugs.com Ltd.

Application forms available from info@iapc.ie or 01 2310566