We welcome the opportunity to showcase and share learning from the work we do with peers across our hospices and wider healthcare sector.
We regularly submit and showcase poster abstracts at conferences/events including Hospice UK and the Palliative Care Congress Conference, taking advantage of the opportunity to talk about our work and share knowledge with people across the UK.
Please note these are external links and Birmingham Hospice is not responsible for associated content.
WMCARES – View current research projects and find out more about the annual showcase event.
Resuscitation Council (UK) – Learn more about the ReSPECT process.
End of Life Care for All (e-ELCA) – Free training for health and social care professionals about end of life care.
We welcome the opportunity to showcase and share learning from the work we do with peers across our hospices and wider healthcare sector.
We regularly submit and showcase poster abstracts at conferences/events including Hospice UK and the Palliative Care Congress Conference; taking advantage of the opportunity to talk about our work and share knowledge with people across the UK.
Title: How to get urgent end of life medications to patients in the middle of a pandemic. A collaborative approach across Birmingham & Solihull.
Presented at: Hospice UK Conference November 2022 by Lisa Wall-Hayes
Overview: When the WHO announced the COVID-19 outbreak was officially a pandemic, providers were asked to increase wider support to community teams and hospitals. HoBS (Hospices of Birmingham and Solihull) joined to form a collaboration, working in partnership with all providers to support the wider healthcare system. A 24-hour contact centre, staffed by experienced clinicians and clinical administration support was set up. This included urgent responders, available to go out to the patient at any time, supporting the non-specialist teams. The Pharmacy Teams worked together to identify the risks and problems for patients and collaborated with other organisations to design practical solutions. With COVID-19 affecting the integrity of the workforce, by working together and embracing new working initiatives, services were maintained which has led to long-term improvements in the way we work.
Title: Anticipatory Syringe Drivers in end of life care: A risky business?
Presented at: Palliative Care Congress in March 2022 by Abigail Reynolds and Nagu Penakacherla
Overview: An audit of their use in a hospice Inpatient Unit.
Title: Introducing a Palliative Homeless Support Service to Birmingham
Presented at: West Midlands Virtual Showcase Week for Supportive & Palliative Care Research, March 2021*
Overview: Learn how a new two year pilot project is offering a Palliative Homeless Support Outreach Service across Birmingham into and in partnership with existing services.
This abstract was the Best Poster Winner at this event.
Title: Supporting Care Homes: Knowledge, skills and relationship to enable excellent palliative and end of life care
Presented at: West Midlands Virtual Showcase Week for Supportive & Palliative Care Research, March 2021
Overview: Learn how our new Care Homes Support Service is increasing in skills and confidence of Care Home staff and reducing hospital admissions of residents.
Title: Anticipatory Syringe Driver Prescribing on the Inpatient Unit : An Audit
Presented at: West Midlands Virtual Showcase Week for Supportive & Palliative Care Research, March 2021
Overview: Learn how a retrospective audit of all admissions to our IPU from January to March 2020 has been used to implement changes.
Title: Goal Setting in a Breathlessness Clinic
Presented at: Palliative Care Congress 2020
Overview: Find out more about the positive impact Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice’s new 5 week Breathlessness Clinic is having on patients.
Title: Introducing a Learning From Deaths Meeting in a Hospice
Presented at: Palliative Care Congress 2020
Overview: Learn how a new monthly Learning from Deaths meeting has become a vital part of clinical practice at Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice, providing support for staff and an opportunity for learning.
Title: Wellbeing for Staff in a Hospice Setting
Presented at: Mental Wellbeing Conference 2020
Overview: Learn more about how Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy is supporting employees to improve their wellbeing at work and helping to sustain a healthy and safe work place for all.
Title: A Bridge to Care: Understanding and supporting Bosnian communities’ experience of end of life care
Presented at: Hospice UK, 2019
Overview: Learn more about how Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice worked in partnership to design and implement a programme of education aimed at empowering key members of the Bosnian community to provide emotional and practical skills to those facing end of life care.
Title: Urgent Response: Meeting needs and changing culture
Presented at: Hospice UK 2018
Overview: End of life needs for patients in the community are changing. An urgent response is needed for care crisis, symptom management, emotional distress and end of life care – but with greater pressure on core services, how do we address these changes and respond with the speed needed?
Title: Supporting Care homes: what should end of life care look like?
Presented at: Hospice UK 2018
Overview: As part of a larger project, Birmingham St Mary’s started a 6 month pilot to produce a service model to facilitate onsite education and embed a sustainable programme such as Gold Standard Framework and/or Six Steps, to improve the competence and confidence of local care home staff.
Title: Growing Your Own: Developing Clinical Nurse Specialists
Presented at: Hospice UK 2018
Overview: Learn more about how Birmingham St Marys, developed a Band 6 to 7 competency programme, tailored to a broad palliative care approach to respond to increasing difficulties with the recruitment of Clinical Nurse Specialists.
Title: Giving praise where praise is due: Learning from Excellence in a hospice
Presented at: Hospice UK 2018
Overview: Find out how Birmingham St Mary’s instituted a Learning from Excellence scheme within a hospice setting, aimed at improving staff morale and retention and providing evidence of good practice for team learning, quality reports and marketing.
Title: Coordinated End of Life Care
Presented at: Hospice UK 2018
Overview: Learn how Birmingham St Mary’s worked with partners to develop a combined stakeholder vision and mission for improving EOLC, which has since been taken up by the Sustainability Transformation Partnership and embedded in their priorities.
Title: Involving patients & their carers: A review of DNACPR decisions within a hospice
Presented at: The Association for Palliative Medicine Conference 2018
Overview: Hear findings of a review undertaken by Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice of a five year series of audit data about DNACPR decision making within a hospice setting.
Title: Palliative care outpatients in the heart of the community
Presented at: Hospice UK 2017
Overview: Learn how Birmingham St Mary’s small network of Satellite Clinics, is opening up access to palliative and strengthening understanding of our Hospice services across Birmingham.
Title: Successful sharing of Medical Expertise
Presented at: Hospice UK 2017
Overview: Learn how a sessional commitment by Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice’s Medical Director, to John Taylor Hospice, promoted collaborative working and shared best practice and improved patient experience.
Title: Dementia and Advance Care Planning: whose responsibility is it?
Presented at: Hospice UK 2017
Overview: Learn outcomes from a study to explore which professionals are best placed to take responsibility for ACP with patients with dementia.
Title: Living well through our new Day Hospice: measuring patient outcomes
Presented at: Hospice UK 2017
Overview: Find out more about how Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice’s specialised 12 week therapeutic Day Hospice programme is empowering people to live well with terminal illness.
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