End of Life Anticipatory Medications
Tuesday 7th October 2025
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Who should attend:
Would you like to gain awareness about palliative and end of life care?
All clinicians who support end of life patients and want to learn more about the anticipatory medications.
Might be suitable for community staff, care home staff and GPs
Course Aims:
To provide an overview about how, when and why you might use end of life anticipatory medications
Objectives:
- To identify when to prescribe and administer end of life care drugs (including a syringe pump)
- To summarise the elements of a holistic approach to symptom control
- To state common end of life care drugs used
- To be familiar with the paperwork used in HWE (principles will be the same elsewhere- but details may differ slightly)
- To provide space to ask questions and concerns re using these drugs
Presented by
Claire Nicell
Joint Head of Education and Learning
Her palliative care experience has involved working in hospitals, hospices and as a Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse. More recently her focus and experience has switched to education. Within Hertfordshire she was part of the ABC project delivering palliative and end of life care to care homes throughout the county and then spent 18 months with the palliative care team at Watford General Hospital implementing The Rose Project (to promote dignity and respect at the end of life).
Claire loves working collaboratively with different colleagues across the social and health care sectors and helping individuals apply the principles of palliative care to their setting to promote excellent palliative care for those they care for.
She keeps her hand in clinically by working with her colleagues in the Community Palliative Care team and supporting a support group for patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis to ensure she practices what she teaches!
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