Palliative Care Update

Highlights 

• What (and when) is it?
• Thinking ahead & mental capacity
• Opioid prescribing – the smallprint
• The Gosport Inquiry and Anticipatory Syringe Drivers
• If we have time: quick glance at the Draft Assisted Dying Bill

Speaker

• Dr. Matthias Hohmann
• Medical Director – Dr Kershaw’s Hospice
• Clinical Director Cancer – Oldham CCG

Chairperson

• Dr Jane Wilcock
• NW England faculty chair RCGP and GP Salford