Future Care Planning & ReSPECT

10 Mar 2025 09:00 - 12:30 Kirkland's Medical Education Centre Free

Future Care Planning & ReSPECT

Workshop Programme

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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

Overview

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.

Learning outcomes

In this advanced clinical communication workshop participants will:

  • Communicate sensitively and effectively with people and those close to them about serious illness,  deteriorating health, goals of care and CPR.
  • Talk about Future Care Planning informed by an understanding of ‘what matters’ to people and their families.
  • Use the REDMAP framwork to support the ReSPECT process
  • Discuss treatment and care options and outcomes within a person-centred model of shared decision-making and Realistic Medicine.
  • Respond to anger, distress, collusion and other complex emotions.
  • Discuss the benefits and limitations of treatment in a balanced way.
  • Address communication challenges that arise when the person has impaired decision-making capacity

 

Kirkland's Medical Education Centre

Future Care Planning & ReSPECT

Date: 10 Mar 2025
Time: 09:00 - 12:30

Tutor team

Dr Kerry McWilliams

EC4H Lead Tutor

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.

Dr Alastair Brown

EC4H Tutor

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

EC4H Tutor

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.