Clinical Management

Recognising when someone is dying

Rachael Tout
Rachael Tout

Dates: Thursday 22nd October 2026 09.30 – 12.30 virtual via Teams

Price:  £50 to include all course materials.

Where:  Virtual via Microsoft Teams

Suitable for all health and social care professionals from all clinical settings.

This half study day can be used as a refresher for the principles of recognising dying or to improve and gain knowledge base. The focus will be on ensuring the difference to people receiving end of life care and their families through identifying the dying phase. The course does not focus on symptom management as this knowledge can be accessed on alternative courses. Group discussion will feature as part of this short course and the aim is to increase your confidence in this highly important area wherever you work in health and social care.

Key learning outcomes:-

  • Understand signs of approaching death (last few days) and signs of impending death.
  • Awareness of reversible conditions at end of life.
  • Analysis and application of the barriers and issues in diagnosing dying (including recent NIHR research, April 2022).
  • Understand the NICE guidance on ‘care of dying adults in the last days of life’ (2015) and current guidance.

This course links to specific subject areas and tiers within the EoLC Core Skills Training Framework.

This course will either be held at the Education Centre, Terminus Road, Chichester PO19 8TX or virtually 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 course reminder (if f2f) or 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 education@stwh.co.uk with any queries

Recognising Dying