2020 Posters by Number

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 1 - Community Bereavement services in the North East of England: improving awareness and accessibility - Kate Howorth

5 - The Difficulties Faced by Family Caregivers when Home is the Preferred Place of Death - Daniel Lewin

6 - Mapping the trajectory of the last 12 months of life of people with dementia: the role of specialist palliative care - Jennifer Todd

7 - Outside the Margins: Palliative and end-of-life care education for homeless support services - Gemma Allen

8 - Life or Death Decisions: Online engagement using film to explore advance care planning - Erica Borgstrom

9 - The benefits of early simulated "breaking bad news" communication skills training for 3rd year medical students - Lisa Boulstridge

10 - Closer, Wiser, Stronger: Setting Up A Peer-Led Reflective Practice Group for Palliative Medicine Specialty Registrars - Robert Brodrick

11- One Opioid Conversion Workbook, Three Settings: Community, Hospices, Hospitals - Robert Brodrick

12 - Competency based Palliative Care education in Acute Hospital - Sarika Hanchanale

13 - Developing the Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist Workforce - an Innovative Approach - Lesley Charman

15 - How should the Palliative Medicine aspect of the new Internal Medicine curriculum be best implemented? - Alice Crabtree

16 - Quality improvement project: Improving junior doctors' confidence in prescribing at end of life for acute inpatients - Laura Dewhirst / Hannah Hudson

17 - SimPall an in-situ simulation course on Palliative Care for the Emergency Department - Sarah Edwards

18 - Experiences of developing in-situ Palliative simulations in the Emergency Department - Sarah Edwards

19 - Involvement of Palliative Care Link Nurses to leverage palliative care delivery - Case of Kibagabaga Hospital, Rwanda - Rose Gahire

20 - Assessing the impact of placements in Palliative Medicine for Core Medical Trainees (CMT) - Nicola Galliford

23 - From an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to a Hospice; a case study highlighting the need for tailored staff education in response to the increasingly complex case-mix in Specialist Palliative Care - Donna Wakefield

24 - Improving communication and documentation of end of life conversations, a simulation based project  - Ellen Haire

25 - A Mixed-Methods Study to Investigate Nursing Attitudes Towards Administration of 'As Required' Prescribed Symptom Control Medication at End of Life in a Hospital Setting - Elke Hall

26 - Psychiatry & Palliative Care: Meeting inter-professional, multi-disciplinary educational needs - Sarah Yardley

27 - Time is not an excuse, advance care planning - the use of a brief intervention - Catherine Hughes

28 - How pain-rating scales work (and do not work) in real life practice - A small Conversation Analytic study of five video-recorded hospice consultations - Ruth Parry

30 - Experiences of a pilot course for advanced care practitioners in the emergency department to sign do not resuscitate forms for patients approaching the end of life - Sarah Edwards

32 - Opioid Calculations via Biscuits - Elizabeth O'Brien

33 - The Knowledge, Concerns and Attitudes of Palliative Health Care Practitioners in Treating Patients with Substance Use Disorder - Natasha Palipane

36 - Developing palliative medicine and oncology focused simulation training for 4th Year medical students at LOROS Hospice - Barbara Powell

37 - Improving the learning experience of visiting healthcare professionals to a hospice using educational tourism - Treena Saini

38 - Meeting the educational objectives of healthcare professional visitors to Meadow House Hospice  - Treena Saini

39 - `Shedding light on the shadows`: an evaluation of the experience of shadowing the hospital palliative care team - Suzanne Ford-Dunn

40 - SNaP, CRACKLE & POP: Developing a framework to assess and support nursing students during full term placement with an acute hospital specialist palliative care team - Paul Spencer

41 - Research experience, interest & opportunities: findings from a national UK Palliative Medicine training survey - Donna Wakefield

42 - Novel use of high-fidelity simulation in the training of palliative care hospital liaison team nurses in the management of palliative care emergencies - Rowan Walmsley

45 - Implementing Real Talk: interprofessional education intervention enabling clinicians to develop confidence in open and honest conversations about dying - Becky Whittaker

46 - How active are UK hospices in nationally impactful research? - Sam H Ahmedzai

47 - GREAT discharge letters for End of Life Care Patients - Maya Patel

51 - Rehabilitative palliative care as a health promoting approach: A participatory action research study - Karen Clarke

53 - A clinical audit to evaluate how DNACPR decisions are shared on discharge from Ty Olwen - a specialist palliative care unit in Wales - Alice Crabtree

54 - A Response to Gosport: Regional project on anticipatory prescribing and benchmarking practice cross-Hospice in Yorkshire - Alice Pullinger

55 - Placing death and dying: On the work of making place at the end of life - Erica Borgstrom

56 - Advanced Care Planning in patients admitted from care homes to the Emergency Department - Laura Nightingale

57 - Who would know? Embedding Future Care Planning for all patients approaching the end of their lives - Clare Finnegan

58 - Anticipatory Prescribing and use of syringe drivers - Cross boundary audit of practice - Andrew Fletcher

61 - Improving discussions around treatment escalation decisions on a Neurosurgical ward - Ellen Haire

63 - Systematic review of prognostic variables associated with mortality in adult patients with heart failure - Sophie Hancock

65 - The challenge of de-escalating care; transfer from ICU to a ward setting for end of life care - Sinead Hutcheson

69 - Opiates and Sedatives prescription in CCC - A comparison with best practice and the Gosport Memorial Enquiry - Despoina-Elvira Karakitsiou

70 - Findings from the second round of the National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL) - Suzanne Kite

71 - "Is this a conversation about death?" Planning for Future Care with Patients with Advanced Cancer: Examining the feasibility of using the Trajectory Touchpoint Technique for Advance Care Planning. A qualitative study - Daniel Lewin

72 - A mortality review of care home residents admitted to acute hospitals - Tomoko Lewis

73 - Continuous Subcutaneous Infusion prescribing practices in End of Life Care: A multicentred retrospective review - Philippa McFarlane

75 - Symptom control medication for patients dying in Critical Care: systematic review of the literature and current practice in Cheshire and Merseyside - Susan Oakes

77 - Improving end of life care in an Acute Surgical Unit and Trauma Team - A Quality Improvement Project  - Parisa Pirjamali

79 - Improving DNAR Discussions: A Qualitative Quality Improvement Project - Ruth Porther

80 - Care doesn't stop when life does: Improving documentation of care after death in a hospital setting  - Samuel Raveney

81 - Use of Steroids in Palliative Care - Amanda Richardson

82 - Anticipatory prescribing in community end of life care in the UK: a mixed-methods study of healthcare professionals' views concerning best practice and areas in need of improvement - Richella Ryan

83 - It's High Time for Straight Answers about Cannabis: Results from a Survey of Healthcare Professionals Working in Oncology and Haematology in a University Hospital in England - Rachelle Schofield

84 - A qualitative study of nursing attitudes towards administering anticipatory medication for symptom control to dying patients in a hospital setting - Fatimah Shah

85 - An Audit of Continuous Subcutaneous Syringe Pump Doses in Adults Recognised as Dying in a District General Hospital - Clare Smith

86 - Caring for dying patients in critical care settings: survey of palliative care and critical care practices and perspectives - Tom Steele

88 - A survey of Anticipatory Prescribing practices in the West Midlands - Brenda Ward

90 - Retrospective audit of the prescription of opioids at the end of life in a hospice and hospital setting in the wake of the Gosport Inquiry - Phoebe Wright

91 - Are We Ready? - Sinead Henderson

94 - Enabling dying patients to take part in research using advanced consent methodology - Sarah Stanley

93 - In your opinion what are the most important ethical issues for the specialty in the next five years and how could we address them - Jack Maddicks

95 - Home Parental Nutrition for Palliative Patients. A review of five years of experience at Milton Keynes University Hospital - Jane Wale

97 - How do physicians in South India recognise, assess and manage chronic breathlessness and is chronic breathlessness considered a syndrome or diagnosis? - Matilda Barnes-Harris

99 - The role of Civil Society in the promotion of Palliative Care: Case of Palliative Care Association of Rwanda (PCAR) - Rose Gahire

101 - A simple act of kindness can do more than medicine: Palliative Care training for Community Health workers in rural Myanmar - Kerry Waterfield

102 - Use of tapentadol for pain management in palliative care: a retrospective case note analysis of hospital inpatients - Poppy Brown

104 - The Pain of waiting for Pain Relief: Using e-prescribing data to study subcutaneous syringe driver delays in a large teaching hospital in England - Jon Tomas

105 - Inappropriate use of naloxone in a hospital setting compromising patient safety: a quality improvement project - Ruth Caulkin

107 - Audit of The Pharmacological Management of Depression in Palliative Care - Cat Barrett-Ayres

109 - Under the influence? The hidden drug driving concerns - Maimoona Ali

111 - One Hospital clinic - achieving death at Home and Hospice for patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis - Kirsten Baron

112 - Surveying the users of an open-access support service for people affected by an illness that has no cure  - Ellen Battye

113 - Introducing a learning from deaths meeting in a hospice - Molly Bird

114 - Approaching the end of life: are referrals to hospital specialist palliative care team arriving too late? -  Elaine Boland

115 - Compassionate Care Bed in Partnership with Intermediate Care Services - North Manchester - Lindy Brooks

117 - Patients with palliative care needs not so dissimilar to those of frailty: time for sharing approaches - Declan Cawley

118 - In light of the Gosport review, how transparent is opioid prescribing within hospices? - Declan Cawley

119 - Cornea Donation - our 2020 Vision' - Sarah Collins

121 - Acute Palliative Intervention (API): Facilitating enhanced working between the Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT) and the Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team (SPCT) to ensure appropriate comfort care for the acutely ill - Felicity Dewhurst

122 - The prevalence of frailty amongst hospice in-patient populations: What does this mean for our patients and the care we do and do not provide? - Felicity Dewhurst

124 - One Hospital Team, Three sites - Louise Whitfield

125 - Can the SPICT be applied retrospectively to identify patients with unmet specialist palliative care needs who attend ED with breathlessness? - Rebecca Gardiner

128 - Improving palliative and end-of-life care for persons experiencing homelessness: a systematic review of systematic reviews informing clinical recommendations - Anna Gray

130 - Improving communication between secondary and primary care regarding advance care plans; using an electronic tool    - Joanna Davies

131 - Genetic referrals in hospice cancer patients: completion of the audit cycle  - Kate Howorth

133 - Dialysis and End of Life: an analysis of communication and outcomes across hospital and community settings - Heena Khiroya

135 - Development of a Morbidity and Mortality Process in a Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team - Kathryn Lockwood

136 - A 12-month transformation of Severn Hospice Day Unit into an established Living Well Day Services - Derek Willis

137 - What is the Virtue of Virtual Reality - Derek Willis

139 - Glucose Monitoring and Prevention of Adrenal Crisis in Patients Prescribed High-Dose Steroids in a Specialist Palliative Care Unit and Specialist Oncology Unit - Erin Mercer

140 - Improving collaboration between Respiratory and Palliative Medicine, to address the unmet needs of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the last year of life - Debra Morris

141 - ReSPECT, find out what it means to me- an audit of emergency treatment plans - Matthew Murden

142 - Analysis and impact of non medical prescribing interventions at John Taylor Hospice - Tarun Nayyar

143 - Development of an Acute Intervention Team - an innovative solution to providing enhanced 24/7 palliative and end of life support in acute hospitals - Lucy Nicholson

144 - The 'Technology in Palliative Care' (TIP) study: a Delphi study to define research priorities for the use of technology for the clinical management of people with serious illness - Amara Nwosu

147 - PEACE Plan: The Future of Advance Care Planning in the Elderly - Natasha Palipane

148 - Hospice at Home - Derek Willis

149 - Hospice Outreach Team - Derek Willis

150 - Off-Label Prescribing Recommendations by a Hospital Palliative Care Team (HPCT) - Hannah Rose

152 - Patient feedback following the embedding of specialist palliative care into a regional Interstitial Lung Disease clinic: a service evaluation - Anne-Marie Bourke

154 - Electronic Handover Document: are we communicating the right information in the right way? - Lauri Simkiss

155 - Developing a sustainable model of supportive and palliative care for patients with end stage heart failure - Jo Sykes

156 - The Role of Medical Provision in Hospice Day Services - A Review - Sophie Taylor

157 - A Clear Call for Consistency: Creating a Working Document for Management of Diabetes in Palliative Care Patients - Maddy Turley

158 - Has embedding specialist palliative care in an interstitial lung disease clinic impacted on referrals to a local hospice? - Julie Harper

159 - What are the current trends for patients with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) accessing hospice Inpatient Unit (IPU) services? A retrospective review of admissions & considerations for ongoing development - Donna Wakefield

160 - "Palliative Critical Care": An Important And Transformative Collaboration Between Palliative Care and Intensive Care Services at a Large Teaching Hospital - Carol Davis

161 - Setting up a hospice based Renal Supportive Care Service: What we have learned over the last 3 years - Jane Whitehurst

162 - Evaluation of specialist palliative care services to the Gypsy and Traveller population in the Leeds area - Hannah Wilson

164 - Compassionate communities': a qualitative study exploring the views of General Practitioners - Elizabeth Abbey

165 - Existential Suffering in the day-to-day lives of those living with Pallaitive care needs arising from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Louise Bolton

167 - The surprise question in severe COPD exacerbations: correlation with DNACPR decisions and advance care planning - Sarah Gillespie

168 - Early Integration of Palliative Care in Oncology - What do Staff and Patients think? - Yuki Kano

169 - Acceptability and experience of a new Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care "Triggers" service for cancer patients: A qualitative study - Yuki Kano

170 - ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment): an audit in community care homes in Coventry and Warwickshire - Claire Magee

171 - 1 Specialty 3 Settings: The Influence of Combined Oncology and Palliative Care Clinics (COPC) on contacts with palliative care in hospital, community and hospice in Cornwall - Rachel Newman

172 - The Influence of Combined Oncology and Palliative Care Clinics (COPC) on hospital admissions and various outcomes for patients with lung malignancies in Cornwall - Rachel Newman

173 - Non-invasive technology to support clinical care in palliative head and neck cancer: a systematic review of the use of bioelectrical impedance analysis for body composition assessments - Amara Nwosu

174 - Evaluating an 8 week mindfulness programme developed to support hospice staff and volunteers at LOROS Hospice - Barbara Powell

175 - Substance misuse in palliative care: how well do we document key information for effective multi-agency working across healthcare settings in Mersey? - Penny Shepherd

176 - Substance misuse in palliative care: an audit exploring regional practice in identifying patients with substance misuse across community, hospice and hospital settings - Penny Shepherd

177 - Evaluation of the effects of Fragonia Essential Oil on sleep patterns and insomnia - Vanessa Brain

178 - Enhanced Supportive Care - Making a Difference - Kate Tredgett

179 - A hospice based Renal Supportive Care Service: An evaluation of the first 3 years - Jane Whitehurst

180 - Cost-Effectiveness of COPD Management in the UK - Mitri Ng

181 - Implementing Patient Centred Goals into a Breathlessness Symptom Management Clinic - Camilla Barrow

183 - How are specialist palliative care units using ranitidine in the medical management of adults with malignant bowel obstruction? A survey of UK Hospices - Andrew Campbell

184 - Cost-effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation: a systematic review - Baldev Chahal

186 - Olanzapine for the management of delirium in the palliative care setting - a systematic review of the evidence - Mairéad Doherty

187 - Identification and assessment of breathlessness in clinical practice: a systematic review and narrative synthesis - Helene Elliott-Button

189  - Non-malignant liver disease: a retrospective audit of hospital inpatient deaths - Alice Gray

191 - "Iron't you going to give a blood transfusion?": Addressing Deficiencies in Anaemia Management - Sophie Jones

192 - Anticoagulation in Palliative Care: A Multi-Site Regional Audit of Clinical Practice - Sara McLintock

193 - What methods are used to screen and identify cachexia and in which healthcare settings? - Ugochi Nwulu

195 - Prescription and use of anticipatory medications in patients dying at home, in hospices and in hospitals - Amber Garnish

197 - Use of subcutaneous furosemide in end stage heart failure: what is known in the literature? - Abigail Reynolds

198 - Naloxone use in patients receiving therapeutic opioids: are we following the guidance? - Paul Selway

199 - Case series of the safe use of intravenous iron in a hospice setting  - Tom Steele

200 - Polypharmacy in children and young people with life-limiting conditions: an observational cohort study in England - Johanna Taylor

202 - An 'Agitation in the Dying Patient Decision Aid Tool' - Clare Wilkins