Palliative Care Congress, Recovering, Rebounding, Reinventing

ABSTRACT

The proceedings contain 154 papers. The topics discussed include cordotomy improves pain in palliative cancer patients receiving care from a specialist center, and continues to rebuild following temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic;the impact on staff of providing non-invasive advanced respiratory support during the COVID-19 pandemic' a qualitative study in an acute hospital;levels of grief, support needs and risk factors among people bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic baseline results from a longitudinal UK online survey;the palliative care needs of patients with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's related diseases and motor neuron disease a secondary analysis of the optcare neuro trial data;a co-speciality cross-boundary model of supportive care an innovative approach to caring for the palliative care needs of heart failure patients;creating equity of community palliative care in Manchester in a pandemic. does the 'Midhurst model' of care work?;palliative medicine specialist training designing and implementing an oncology placement fit for the future;managing dying multimedia end of life care simulation training for medical undergraduates;and use of a novel trigger tool for the identification and referral of patients in the last year of life pallitrigger.