Challenging Cases in Palliative Care

Dr Edmonds has been a consultant at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 1997. As honorary senior lecturer at King's College London she was heavily involved in development of the palliative care component of the undergraduate medical curriculum and examinations. She has been a training programme director for London, overseeing the delivery of postgraduate medical training and is currently the chair of the national Specialist Advisory Committee for Palliative Medicine.Dr Gillon has been a consultant in Palliative Medicine since 2015; chairs the Association of Palliative Medicine Education and Training Committee; is the Palliative Care education lead for the trust and is an active member of the regional Specialty Training Committee. She is regularly involved in local and national research projects and quality improvement initiatives.Dr Miller qualified from University College Cork, Ireland in 1988. Mary trained and worked in palliative medicine in Ireland, Sweden and the UK and has been a consultant in palliative medicine in Oxford since 1998. Mary has a strong interest in education; completing a Diploma in Learning and Teaching at Oxford University 2005, was Training Programme Director and Regional Specialty Advisor (2002 - 2008) and has led the Oxford Advanced Courses in Pain and Symptom Management since 2005. Mary is an elected member of the Education Committee of the Association of Palliative Medicine and joint lead of the postgraduate education special interest forum. Since the inception of OxCERPC in 2017, Mary and the team are focusing on building an exciting portfolio of courses, building research readiness and reaching out to practitioners across the globe.Dr Hawkins has been a Consultant in Palliative Medicine since 2020. She has previously completed a number of educational research projects alongside an MSc in Medical Education. She has experience of qualitative research studies and has undertaken a systematic review. She is currently a member of the Association of Palliative Medicine Education and Training Committee.Dr Yardley is a clinical academic interested in how patients, families, carers, and healthcare professionals do the work of frontline day-to-day healthcare and make sense of their experiences; hospital-community and specialist-generalist interfaces in palliative care; and patient transitions between hospital and community care, including palliative care in Emergency Departments and Acute Medical Units. Her research seeks to understand and improve human-dependent healthcare such as the impact therapeutic and professional collegiate relationships have on current and future care.Dr Felicity Dewhurst is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Oswald's Hospice and an NIHR Advanced Fellow and Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University.Following her Dunhill doctoral fellowship, she lobbied for the creation of the first NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship in Palliative Medicine in Newcastle, and subsequently successfully applied for the first NIHR Advanced Fellowship in Palliative Medicine nationally (January 2024-6.25 years).Felicity has a Master's in Health Professions Education and is on the education committee of the Association of Palliative Medicine (APM) and the organising committee for the Palliative Care Congress (PCC). She is passionate about trying to improve care through research, education and service modification.

• 1. Pain Management1: Anna Schuberth and Matt Mulvey: Cancer-related bone pain2: Rebecca Gemmell and Craig Montgomery: Cancer-related neuropathic pain3: Lucy Hetherington and Alison Mitchell: Interventional pain4: Lucy Hetherington and Chris Farnham: Pain in people with drug dependence5: Lauri Simkiss and Iain Jones: Chronic non-cancer pain2. Management of symptoms in advanced illness6: Natasha Lovell and Sabrina Bajwah: Breathlessness7: Holly McGuigan and Anna Sutherland: Nausea, vomiting and hiccups8: Lucy Ison and Barry Laird and Richard Skipworth: Cancer cachexia9: Sarah Webster and Emily Rea and Emma Husbands: Palliative bowel obstruction10: Rose O'duffy and Maggie Presswood: Pruritis11: Grace Rowley and Phil Lodge: Mouth care12: Anna Bradley and Jason Boland: Constipation13: Rob McConnell, Michael Connolly and Leona Butterly: Diarrhoea3. Management of the dying patient14: Simon Etkind and Paddy Stone: Clinical uncertainty and prognostication15: Sarah Longwell and Lucy Wyld: De-escalation from ITU16: Alice Copley and Sarah Yardley: Community patient transferred into ED/AMU - rapid assessment and decision-making17: Luke Nathaniel Hatton and Melinda Presland: Prescribing review18: Rosanna Hill and Adam Hurlow: Co-ordination and transfer of care19: Shaun Qureshi, Philippa Guppy, Georgina Osborne and Rasha Al-Qurainy: Giving remote advice to families and other professional providers20: Tammy Oxley and Katherine Malia: What to expect with death at home21: Steph Hicks and Ben Bowers: Individualised end of life care plans4. Interface between palliative care and mental health22: Felicity Wood and Annabel Price: Depression in the context of life-limiting illness23: Manraj Bhamra and Khalida Ismail: Hoarding24: Kitty Jackson and Felicity Wood: Delirium25: Kirsty Tolmie and Karen Harrison Dening: Dementia26: Jamie Richardson and Valerie Potter: Learning disabilities27: Dan Hughes and Maggie Bisset: Serious mental health and the palliative care patient, including patients under section5. Challenging physiology/physical conditions28: Steph Lister Flynn and Emma Murphy: Symptom management in organ failure (renal failure)29: Constantina Pitsillides and Lou Wiblin: Rigidity30: Kirsty Douglas and Rachel Burman: Sialorrhoea31: Felicity Dewhurst and Caroline Nicholson: Frailty/multi-morbidity32: Jaspal Mann and Alastair Lumb: Diabetic management at end of life33: Mairi Finlay, Oliver Jackson and Mark Teo: Palliative management of malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC)34: Geoff Wells and Jane Neerkin: Seizures6. Personalised palliative care35: Rebecca Tiberini and Jon Martin: Care planning and goal setting36: Georgina Osborne and Bee Wee: Advance care planning37: Athul Manuel and Sunitha Daniel: Pandemics and disaster response38: Sarah Maan, Alice Gray and Andrew Goodhead: Spiritual care39: Max Charles and Jonathan Koffman: Cultural care40: Lara Datta-Paulin, Mark Warren and Richard Berman: Supportive care/survivorship41: Toni Mortimer and Caroline Shulman: Specific challenges: homelessness42: Gurpreet Gupta and Joanna Elverson: Transition from children's to adult palliative care43: Joe Sawyer and Libby Sallnow: Developing compassionate communities44: Charlotte Chamberlain and Lucy Selman: Bereavement7. Legal considerations45: Becky Payne and Sam Lund: A desire for hastened death46: Gemma Lewis-Williams and Mark Taubert: Treatment escalation plans and CPR decisions47: Simeon Senders Galloway and Anna Gorringe: Withdrawal of treatment48: Marie Claire Rooney and Jo Laddie: Autonomy in children