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Palliative Care Emergencies

Mandy Elliot
Mandy Elliot

Date: 14th October 2026 09.00-12.30 (Virtual via Teams) COURSE FULL

10th March 2027 09.00 – 12.30 (virtual via Teams)

Price: £60 to include all course materials.

Where: Virtual via Teams

This half-day course is suitable for health and social care professionals from all clinical settings who want to gain a broad understanding of the symptoms and complexities of palliative care emergencies.

Key learning objectives are:-

1. Identify and assess symptoms related to diagnosed palliative care emergencies
2. Evidence based management of symptoms of palliative care emergencies
3. Awareness and understanding of complexities of managing palliative care emergencies.

The focus will be on:-

  • Metastatic spinal cord compression
  • Superior vena cava obstruction
  • Major haemorrhage
  • Hypercalcaemia
  • Seizures
  • Sepsis

and how to manage these symptoms.

This course will be held via Microsoft Teams which can be booked below – please ensure that individual emails are supplied as we are unable to accept generic emails. After booking you will receive a joining link to the email address you have registered by the day before the event. This link is specific to the individual and we respectfully ask that this is not shared in anyway.

Please contact us on education@stwh.co.uk with any queries.