Living and Dying Well with Heart Failure - How can Palliative Care Help?
Wednesday 2nd April 2025
9:30 am to 3:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Who should attend:
Open to any health or social care professional who supports individuals living with heart failure.
May be of particular benefit to GP's, Practice Nurses, Resident Doctors at NHS Trusts, Community Teams, Community Matrons or Palliative Care staff who want to learn how they can support such individuals
Course Aims:
To learn more about the management of heart failure and the role of palliative care to support individuals
Objectives:
- To state the pathophysiology and types of heart failure including progression of heart failure
- To gain insights into the patient’s experience of living with heart failure
- To describe the role of the specialist heart failure nurses and the role of palliative care
- To identify common symptoms in heart failure and state some drug and non-drug approaches to its management
- To explore approaches to advance care planning including difficult conversations about managing ICDs
Our Speakers
Dr. Sharon Chadwick
Medical Director & Deputy CEO
Having trained in Respiratory Medicine, she has developed services locally for those suffering from advanced lung diseases and heart failure. As a result The Hospice of St Francis is recognised as a specialist centre for the palliative care of those conditions.
She is the medical and end of life Palliative Care lead at Watford Hospital and works there 2 days per week.
Increasingly Dr Chadwick is asked to teach at both local and national level.
Stephen Kirkham
Patient Advocate and Trustee of Cardiomyopathy UK
Julie Wilcock
Palliative Care Heart Failure Specialist, Expert by Experience
Zoe Jayne
Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Lead for Community Cardiology, CLCH
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