April 2025
Tue 29 Apr 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
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.
May 2025
Tue 6 May 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
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.
Tue 20 May 2025
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
Recognise the causes and stages of liver disease. Learn about the principles of symptom management and prescribing in palliative care.
June 2025
Tue 3 Jun 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
Focusing on improving your assessment and management of common gut symptoms for palliative and end of life patients.
4 - 5 Jun 2025
2 days, 8:45 AM - 4:45 PM
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
Wed 11 Jun 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour)
Improve understanding in assessment and management of illnesses affecting the swallow function. Explore special impact at end of life affecting communication and decision-making to confidently provide care.
Tue 24 Jun 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
Explore best practice and adaptations beneficial to patients at end of life.
Thu 26 Jun 2025
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (3 hours)
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.
July 2025
2 - 3 Jul 2025
2 days, 8:45 AM - 4:45 PM
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
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Jul
Spiritual care at end of life
Rainbow House, Ella's Gardens, Rowcroft Hospice, Torquay
Thu 10 Jul 2025
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (2 hours 30 minutes)
Gain the skills and confidence to offer spiritual care, an integral and rewarding aspect of palliative and end-of-life care. Spiritual care is something we can all offer, and this introduction learning event will help you understand how to provide compassionate support during these sensitive times.
16 - 23 Jul 2025
Two full days, 16 & 23 July 2025 at 09:30 - 15:30
Day 1 (16 July 2025) - An opportunity to practice communication skills, which will improve your confidence when caring for a person at end of life. Day 2 (23 July 2025) - To recognise changes, explore and understand how to practically care for someone's mouth, skin, bowel and bladder at end of life.
September 2025
Thu 4 Sep 2025
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (3 hours)
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.
October 2025
Wed 1 Oct 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
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.
Wed 8 Oct 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
This introduction workshop 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.
Thu 16 Oct 2025
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (2 hours 30 minutes)
Learn how to identify and assess frailty and frailty syndromes. Consider appropriate prescribing and de-prescribing for people at end of life.
22 - 23 Oct 2025
2 days, 8:45 AM - 4:45 PM
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
Wed 29 Oct 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (2 hours)
To develop an understanding of how to assess a patient's pain experience and become familiar with the various tools available for this purpose. To recognise and implement the principles of pain management, while also understanding the role and rationale behind both non-pharmacological interventions and prescribed medications.
November 2025
Thu 20 Nov 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour)
This introductory session aims to give an update on TEP Version 12. It will help you to understand your responsibilities around managing the care of a patient at end of life who has a TEP form in place. Highlight when it would be appropriate to request a TEP and the importance of the supporting conversations. Please note this is awareness training only and will not enable you to write TEPs.
December 2025
Tue 2 Dec 2025
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM (2 hours 30 minutes)
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.
Wed 3 Dec 2025
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (3 hours)
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.
January 2026
Wed 14 Jan 2026
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour)
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.
Thu 29 Jan 2026
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
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.
February 2026
Wed 4 Feb 2026
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour 30 minutes)
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.
10 - 26 Feb 2026
Two full days, 10 & 26 February 2026 at 09:30 - 16:30
Day 1 (16 July 2025) - An opportunity to practice communication skills, which will improve your confidence when caring for a person at end of life. Day 2 (23 July 2025) - To recognise changes, explore and understand how to practically care for someone's mouth, skin, bowel and bladder at end of life.
March 2026
Wed 4 Mar 2026
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (3 hours)
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.