8th Association for Paediatric Palliative Medicine Study Day
24 November 2017 | 30 Euston Sq, London
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Draft Programme
08.45 Registration & Exhibitors
09.00 APPM Chair’s welcome
Dr Pat Carragher, Medical Director, CHAS (Children’s Hospice Association
Scotland)
Session 1
Chaired by Dr Jon Dorling, Clinical Associate Professor in Neonatology School of
Medicine, University of Nottingham
09:05 Neonatal palliative symptom control
Dr Jon Dorling, Clinical Associate Professor in Neonatology School of Medicine,
University of Nottingham
Dr Edile Murdoch, Consultant Neonatologist (PPM special interest)
Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
09.50 Case Studies: Panel discussion
Jon Dorling, Edile Murdoch, Dominic Wilkinson
10.40 Ethical challenges in perinatal palliative care
Professor Dominic Wilkinson, Consultant Neonatologist, Professor of Medical
Ethics, University of Oxford
11.35 Focus groups – delegates are free to attend any group
Hospice doctors/GPs
Dr Mike Miller, Retired Medical Director, Trustee Naomi House,
Medical Advisor, React
Hospital doctors/Trainees
Dr Renee McCulloch, Consultant Paediatric Palliative Medicine
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
Specialist nurses and allied health professionals
Co-ordinated by Ms Julie Bayliss, Nurse Consultant, Great Ormond Street
Hospital, London
13.20 1st Seminar
1A Symptom management – dyspnoea
Dr Fin Craig, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, The Louis Dundas
Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital London.
1B Perinatal palliative care
Dr Edile Murdoch, Consultant Neonatologist (PPM special interest)
Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
1C NICE guidance for end of life care in infants, children and young people
(NG61): development, content, implementation and quality standards
Dr Emily Harrop, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Helen and Douglas
House, Oxford, Deputy Chair of Guidance Development Committee
14.15
2nd Workshop
2A Symptom management – dyspnoea
Dr Fin Craig, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, The Louis Dundas
Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital London.
2B Perinatal palliative care
Dr Edile Murdoch, Consultant Neonatologist (PPM special interest)
Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
2C NICE guidance for end of life care in infants, children and young people
(NG61): development, content, implementation and quality standards
Dr Emily Harrop, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Helen and Douglas
House, Oxford, Deputy Chair of Guidance Development Committee
Session 2
Chaired by Dr Anna-Karenia Anderson, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative
Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital and Shooting Star Chase Hospice.
15.20 A new public health approach to EOL care:
Dr Libby Sallnow, St6 Palliative Medicine Registrar, North London Hospital,
Doctoral Student, University of Edinburgh
16.00 Paediatric palliative care in court
Victoria Butler-Cole, Barrister at 39 Essex Chambers, Chair of Trustees of
Compassion in Dying, Advisor to the Medical Mediation Foundation
16.45 Closing remarks
Dr Pat Carragher, APPM Chair, Medical Director, CHAS (Children’s Hospice
Association Scotland)
1700 End