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The podcast focuses on the most common topics in palliative psychiatry. It is a great resource for healthcare professionals who are not mental health specialists, but often encounter these in their daily work.

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View our events calendar to stay up to date with upcoming conferences, study days, awards ceremonies and more.

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See our website for more information about our Postgraduate Medical Education Special Interest Forum (PME SIF) and join our Facebook discussion group.

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Postgraduate Medical Education SIF | APM

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We are delighted to announce the launch of the APM Postgraduate Medical Education Special Interest Forum (PME SIF). The PME SIF is part of the APM Education and Training Committee, chaired by Dr Suzie Gillon, and is open to any doctor interested in the provision of postgraduate medical education.

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A selection of webinars aimed at FY1 doctors covering core symptom management topics, care of the dying adult, and communication.

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Welcome to the palliative care for FY1s resources page! This page contains webinars and resources to help newly graduated medical students feel prepared to provide palliative and end-of-life care as foundation doctors. Content produced by the APM Juniors’ Committee.

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Kath Mannix shares her wisdom in this insightful video. One that every healthcare professional should watch!

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'Dying is not as bad as you think' | BBC Ideas

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The-ELCA e-learning library offers over 180 highly interactive sessions which are grouped into 9 modules all relating to palliative and end-of-life care.

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How to access

In order to access the e-ELCA programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.

To view the e-ELCA programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.

NHS healthcare staff in England

The e-ELCA programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.

Further details are available here.

Not an NHS organisation?

If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.

To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ' OpenAthens ' portal.

Access for care home or hospice staff

To register for the e-ELCA programme, select the ' Register ' button in the top right hand corner of the page. Select the option 'I am a care home or hospice worker' then enter your care home / hospice name or postcode and select it from the options available in the drop down list. Finally enter your care home / hospice registration code and select 'Register'. You may need to see your employer to get this code.

If your employer does not have a code, then they need to contact the elfh Support Team. The Support Team can either give the employer the registration code or arrange a bulk upload of all staff.

Detailed instructions on how to gain access are available here.

Access for social care professionals

Access to elfh content is available to all social care professionals in England whose employers are registered with the Skills for Care Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS). Every employer providing ASC-WDS workforce information to Skills for Care has been given a user registration code for their staff. This code enables you to self-register for access to e-ELCA. Please contact your employer for more details about the registration code.

For information about registering your organisation with the NMDS-SC your employer should access: https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/About/Contact-us/Contact-details.aspx#NMDSSC or contact the Skills for Care Support Service via email: ascwds-support@skillsforcare.org.uk or telephone: 0113 241 0969.

If you have a registration code, you can register by clicking here.

Registering large numbers of users

If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the e-ELCAprogramme, please contact elfh directly.

Organisations wishing to use their own LMS

For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.

How to license

In the event that you do not qualify for free access to the e-ELCAprogramme, you are able to license access through eIntegrity, a community-interest company established for this purpose.
You can check whether or not you qualify for free access by clicking on the 'Register' button above.

For more information on the licensing options available for the e-ELCAprogramme, please visit the eIntegrity website.

More information

Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.

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End-of-life Care For All (e-ELCA) - elearning for healthcare

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e-ELCA has been highlighted as a resource to help with implementation of the NICE Guidelines on improving care for people who are in their last days of life.

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This website has useful information for healthcare professionals including symptom management, management of emergencies, and written information that can be given to patients.

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Read trusted information, knowledge and support to help you deliver the best possible care for anyone with an illness they're likely to die from.

Find information on spotting the signs of abuse, reporting abuse, and supporting your patients and those around them.

Safeguarding in palliative care

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is a treatment to help someone's breathing. Find out which patients might need it, how it works and what to do if something goes wrong.

Non-invasive ventilation in palliative care

Providing a safe, accepting and inclusive environment is essential in ensuring LGBTQ+ people receive high quality, person-centred care.

Caring for LGBTQ+ people at the end of life

The final report of the UK Commission on Bereavement, Bereavement is Everyone's Business, sets out proposals to better support bereaved people.

Published 6 October 2022

We must support bereaved people

Marie Curie is looking for professional and voluntary carers to contribute to a new survey.

Published 1 September 2022

New research on the experience of carers

After Lucy's father passed away, she struggled to manage her grief at work. She shares how she set up a grief and bereavement network.

Published 27 April 2022

How to support grief in the workplace

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Palliative Care Knowledge Zone | Information for professionals

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Expert information and support to help healthcare professionals care for people living with a terminal illness.

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Full resources are available to APM members.

Funded by the generous family of Professor Abe Guz – for whom research into breathlessness was so important, the APM created a fellowship role to source, coordinate and collate best practice on breathlessness to enable better care and to enable further research into breathlessness management

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Funded by the generous family of Professor Abe Guz - for whom research into breathlessness was so important, the APM created a fellowship role to source, coordinate and collate best practice on breathlessness to enable better care and to enable further research into breathlessness management.

A summary of the palliative management of breathlessness is free to view by all below - for a more in-depth exploration of breathlessness, APM members can access resources by logging into their member account within the APM website. Once logged in, you will see additional pages appear under the Abe Guz Fellowship heading in the top navigation menu.

If you are not a member of the APM, consider becoming a member to access this and other educational resources!

Find out more about our membership here

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Welcome to the Association for Palliative Medicine

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Welcome to the Association for Palliative Medicine, championing clinical leadership and care to alleviate suffering in life-limiting illnesses.

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A selection of resources designed to support palliative medicine education in a busy tertiary hospital palliative care team

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Please click on the link to access a wider selection of simulation only resources.

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Click on this link to our APM Undergraduate Resources Padlet!

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Terms and Conditions for using the APM Education Padlet

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Palliative care podcasts developed by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust – variety of topics for a multiprofessional audience

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10 minute teaching sessions you can listen to on the go brought to you from the Palliative Care team at BHRUT. Suitable for all members of the clinical team working on the hospital wards.

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Teaching for our time | clairebatestinkler

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10 minute teaching sessions you can listen to on the go brought to you from the Palliative Care team at BHRUT. Suitable for all members of the clinical team working on the hospital wards.