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AHP Bite Size Learning - Outcome Measures for Palliative Rehabilitation

Thursday 18th December 2025

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Online

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Who should attend:

All AHP and wellbeing practitioners who are interested in palliative care and looking to learn about how to implement outcome measures into their practice.

The principles of this session can be applied to any health care setting

Course Aims:

This session will explore some outcome measures that may be suitable for palliative rehabilitation. Recognising the challenges of using outcome measures for palliative conditions, we will look at what we are trying to measure and how to ensure outcome measures are holistic.

We will share examples of outcome measures including IPOS, GAS goals light and MYCAW and discuss how effective they are for people living with life limiting conditions.

Objectives:

To identify importance of outcome measures in the context of palliative rehabilitation or those living with a life limiting condition
To look at different outcome measures as recommended by Hospice UK
To share some case studies using outcome measures in practice

NOTE: HCT staff

HCT staff to book their place via ‘CPD Apply’ using this link Staff Hub

Presented by

Amy Smissen

Lecturer Practitioner/ Community Occupational Therapist

Amy is a qualified Occupational Therapist with 25 years experience working in both clinical and leadership roles. With a passion for the palliative rehab approach to empower patients to self-manage Amy enjoys sharing her knowledge and skills within the team and wider audiences.

Throughout her career she has worked in a range of settings including a community learning disability team, an inpatient neurological rehab unit and a local charity providing support to people living with long-term neurological conditions.

Amy joined the Hospice of St Francis in 2023 and works 3 days a week in the Community Team, bringing her unique OT perspective to enable community patients to optimise their function and ultimately, their overall quality of life. Amy has always enjoyed facilitating therapeutic groupwork sessions, running workshops and training sessions both for patients and carers and with fellow clinicians. These skills lend themselves well to her Lecturer Practitioner role, which she took on in early 2024.

Manisha Cook

Lecturer Practitioner and Specialist Physiotherapist

The Hospice of St Francis

Manisha is a qualified physiotherapist with over 20 years’ experience working in primary and secondary healthcare settings and has been working in palliative care since 2014.

Manisha completed her Level 4 Certificate in Teaching and Education in 2021 and currently practises as a Lecturer Practitioner at The Hospice of St Francis and within Universities.
Manisha is passionate about providing holistic, patient-centred care with a special interest in long term conditions and Pulmonary Fibrosis. She is equally committed to education and professional development, sharing her clinical expertise to support and inspire multidisciplinary teams, students, and colleagues working within palliative and end-of-life care.