Links to training resources designed to improve the quality of palliative and end of life care services.
Advance Care Planning
Gold Standards Framework Advance care planning
Marie Curie Advance care planning for healthcare professionals
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Advance care planning. A quick guide for registered managers of care home and home care services
Bereavement
Hospice UK Grief support during COVID-19
Hospice UK Bereavement project resources toolkit
Disease-specific
Grey Matter Learning Motor neurone disease online care course
Macmillan Cancer Support Palliative and end of life care support for health professionals
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) Dementia awareness e-learning course (free course; requires registration)
UK Parkinson’s Excellence Network Understanding Parkinson’s for health and social care staff – online (excellence network) (free course)
General
Better Conversation Better Health Resources for a better conversation
Cultivating Compassion The Toolkit
Derbyshire Alliance for End of Life Care Derbyshire Alliance for End of Life Care Toolkit
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The AMBER care bundle
Difficult Conversations Training for health and social care professionals
Gold Standards Framework Training Programmes
Grey Matter Learning End of life care online training course
Healthcare Conferences UK Conferences and masterclasses. Palliative and end of life care training
Health Education England End of life care for all – e-Learning to enhance education and training for end of life care
Hospice UK (2015) Care after death
Hospice UK What we offer: Courses, conferences and learning events
Marie Curie Learn and develop (login required)
Marie Curie Palliative care knowledge zone
Nottinghamshire Local Workforce Action Board Frailty Toolkit
Public Health England (2016) Faith at end of life: public health approach resource for professionals
Royal College of General Practitioners End of life and palliative care toolkit
Royal College of Nursing End of life care and wellbeing for the nursing and midwifery workforce
Skills for Care End of life care
Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group Care home companion
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (2020) The RCEM end of life care toolkit
UK Council for Clinical Communication E-learning (login required)
Inequalities
Marie Curie Caring for people experiencing homelessness in palliative care
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (2022) End of life care: research highlights the importance of conversations and need for equal access
Pathway Homeless palliative care toolkit
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