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We can help you understand ACP and resources for people with a learning disability. Recognise cues, and facilitate and enable people to have conversations about their plans, hopes and choices for the future.

Learn how to identify and assess frailty and frailty syndromes. Consider appropriate prescribing and de-prescribing for people at end of life.

This nationally benchmarked 2 day course will prepare you to practice and develop ways of handling situations you find most difficult, e.g. breaking bad news, responding to anger and uncertainty. The small class size and expert facilitation assures high quality learning and support. Feedback shows increased confidence from each participant and is "An invaluable addition to our degree module, it's second to none and reflected in student feedback" - Sam Garner, Education Lead, Gastroenterology

Learn how the Rowcroft Advance Care Planning (ACP) Brief Intervention Tool© enables conversations that matter with friends, family and clients/patients. Prior knowledge and training about ACP is beneficial but not essential. Open to all.

This learning event supports registered nurses & senior healthcare assistants who double-check pumps to confidently set up and manage pumps, and understand commonly used medication that assists symptom management in palliative care.

Gain deeper insight into advanced Parkinson’s disease and the complexities of end-of-life care. This session explores symptom management, medication use and side effects, and highlights the support systems available to patients and caregivers.

For Rowcroft staff only – An opportunity to refresh your communication skills, re-visit common challenges, and practice in small groups.

Strengthen your understanding of the pharmacological management of breathlessness and cough in palliative care, while deepening your awareness of the wider MDT’s role in non‑pharmacological approaches. Explore the psychological impact these symptoms have on patients, families and carers, and build confidence in providing holistic, compassionate support.

Build your confidence in caring for patients with advanced liver disease by exploring liver cirrhosis, recognising deterioration, and prescribing safely at the end of life.

This introduction learning event is open to all who work in roles supporting a person experiencing loss and looking to further understand and explore ways of helping. It is not intended for anyone currently or recently experiencing loss or bereavement.

This session aims to support you to feel more confident to discuss choices around tissue donation. Clarifies your responsibilities around Treatment Escalation Plans (TEPs), highlighting when it would be appropriate to request one for those in your care. Please note this is awareness training only and will not enable you to write TEPs.

The five priorities were developed following a review of end of life care. Since then, they have became a national foundation for the UK in planning, delivering and assessing palliative and end of life care. Rowcroft Hospice developed a memory hand strategy to help recall in real life time.

Understand what happens to your digital accounts and assets, e.g. Facebook/Instagram/shopping accounts pre and post death. Help patients understand their choices and decisions around all password-protected digital accounts.

Helping you anticipate patients' decline and respond in crisis to symptoms at end of life.

We can all offer spiritual care. Attend this introductory course to gain skills and confidence in this integral and rewarding part of palliative and end of life care.

Explore best practice and adaptations beneficial to patients at end of life.

You do not need to be dying to think about what matters most in your life. In palliative and end of life care there are many choices and decisions that influence care. Planning in advance helps personalise that care and ensure care teams understand how to support. This workshop introduces ACP as conversations over time to help people, patients and families plan.

Recognising this can be a challenging and significant aspect of care at end of life, this workshop will focus on some fundamental skills to help someone feel heard, understood and sensitively responded to.

Recognising dying is a key enabler for a better death. This learning event enables participants to explore current knowledge and understanding about recognising dying and help promote confidence in communicating this in the context of uncertainty.

The five priorities were developed following a review of end of life care. Since then, they have became a national foundation for the UK in planning, delivering and assessing palliative and end of life care. Rowcroft Hospice developed a memory hand strategy to help recall in real life time.

This introduction learning event is open to all who work in roles supporting a person experiencing loss and looking to further understand and explore ways of helping. It is not intended for anyone currently or recently experiencing loss or bereavement.

This learning event supports registered nurses & senior healthcare assistants who double-check pumps to confidently set up and manage pumps, and understand commonly used medication that assists symptom management in palliative care.

Learn how the Rowcroft Advance Care Planning (ACP) Brief Intervention Tool© enables conversations that matter with friends, family and clients/patients. Prior knowledge and training about ACP is beneficial but not essential. Open to all.

We can help you understand ACP and resources for people with a learning disability. Recognise cues, and facilitate and enable people to have conversations about their plans, hopes and choices for the future.