This session looks at how best to teach palliative care and different learning theories. Kate looks at a key paper from Professor Bruera on adoption of palliative care in medical systems and then we hear from Professor Fliss Murtagh on a review of 24 years of Palliative care delivery across the UK and a large survey of families of patients who have died on the experience of palliative care in the UK.

We also get an update on research in Hospice UK and an overview of Hospice Care week.

It is a Full on ECHO. with Fliss Murtagh summarizing two crucial complex reports with her consumate skill.

• Reviewing reasons why staff conflicts happen in the Hospice sector and why such conflict can be so keenly felt.
• Repatriations of patients who want to go home to another country.
• A review of radiology investigations in the last six months of life.
• General updates from across the UK

In this season of election manifestos and incessant political commentary Matt will be having a look at how previous crises in the NHS have been navigated, and in particular how Palliative Care has continued to grow and develop in the face of everything.

Kate will be looking at a series of articles in the Nursing Times on looking after people with palliative care needs.

We will also be hearing from Liv Warnes, from Hospice UK, about the advocacy work taking place on behalf of Hospice and Palliative Care with the political parties in the UK up to election on July 4. With suggestions of what could be done at the local level.

Prior to the holiday season we would also like to know what topics you would like your Clinical ECHO to be covering next season.