10 Mar 2025 09:00 - 12:30 Kirkland's Medical Education Centre Free
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A half day advanced clinical communication workshop for Doctors, Senior Nurses and other Senior Health Professionals. This highly interactive workshop supports Clinicians to talk about Future Care Planning informed by an understanding of “what matters” to individuals and their families.
Participants will work in a small peer group and address communication challenges drawn from their own clinical practice and educational roles. Focus will be on initiating conversations about future care planning and ReSPECT.
This workshop is open to NHS Lanarkshire staff only
We look at effective ways to help people think and plan ahead. Clinicians need to be able to talk about emergency treatment and care planning (e.g. Treatment Escalation Plans and ReSPECT), goals of care, and planning for care around dying, including DNACPR discussions.
The RED-MAP framework supports these conversations.
In this advanced clinical communication workshop participants will:
Kirkland's Medical Education Centre
Date: 10 Mar 2025
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Dr Kerry McWilliams is a consultant in Palliative Medicine in NHS Lanarkshire. She graduated from Glasgow University in 2005 and was appointed as a consultant in 2015. During her specialty training in the West of Scotland she thoroughly enjoyed particpating in an EC4H course herself and was delighted to undergo tutor training in 2018. Currently acting as lead tutor, she enjoys the challenge and new learning experience that comes with each course. Her interests include Anticipatory care planning and promoting informed decision making.
Mr Alistair Brown is a consultant general surgeon with interests in surgical critical care and anticipatory care planning. He regularly teaches on critical care courses (a key component of which is communication skills) both in the UK and abroad. He has undergone training with Effective Communication for Health in Edinburgh and trained as a tutor in November 2016. He has taught communication to a variety of postgraduate groups as part of the critical care teaching. GMC number 3542039
Peter McMillan is a Practice Development Practitioner working in NHS Lanarkshire. He began his career as a Nursing Auxiliary in 1992, then qualified as an RN in 1996. Peter spent the next 25 years working in older adult care, before moving into Practice Education/Development in 2021. He currently supports the Care Homes within NHS Lanarkshire and has an interest in Leadership, Future Care Planning and Palliative Care/Care Around Death.