OVERVIEW

A Practical Guide to Effective Non Medical Prescribing in End of Life Care is organized by Healthcare (HC) - UK Conferences Ltd and will be held on Jan 28, 2027.

Description:
The National Audit of Care at the End of Life found that 77% of bereaved people agreed that the dying person received sufficient pain relief during their final hospital admission, but this still leaves too many people and families experiencing care where pain relief, communication or symptom control could have been better.

Non-medical prescribers are central to improving this picture — through anticipatory prescribing, timely review, robust controlled drugs governance, safe syringe driver practice, and clinically sound prescribing for pain, breathlessness, agitation, nausea, delirium and complex symptoms. Prescribers also have a key role in reducing medication-related harm, including cognitive side effects, anticholinergic burden and avoidable delirium, particularly in frail older people and those with multimorbidity.

This practical, skills-focused conference is designed specifically for nurse and non-medical prescribers working in palliative and end of life care who want to strengthen confidence, competence and governance — and take away real tools they can use immediately in clinical practice.

Why attend:
You will learn from an expert multidisciplinary faculty including nurse consultants, palliative care consultants, hospice clinicians and consultant pharmacists from NHS Trusts and specialist palliative care services.

Through the day you will build practical capability in:

Prescribing in the last days and hours of life, including anticipatory prescribing and managing uncertainty
Pain prescribing at the end of life, including malignant pain, complex pain and opioid decision-making
Prescribing for breathlessness, agitation, nausea, respiratory secretions and delirium
Controlled drugs governance, documentation and safe prescribing beyond product licence where appropriate
Syringe drivers and syringe driver combinations: safety, compatibility and practical decision-making
Avoiding cognitive side effects and delirium through medication review, anticholinergic burden assessment and safer prescribing choices
Leading prescribing practice locally, including competence, regulation, supervision, communication and MDT working
Using audit and evaluation to evidence safe practice and improve prescribing quality over time
This conference supports CPD professional development and can be used as evidence for revalidation. The course provides 5 hours of training for CPD, subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes.
Strengthen confidence and competence in non-medical prescribing for end of life symptom control
Apply practical approaches to anticipatory prescribing in the last days and hours of life
Improve prescribing for pain, breathlessness, agitation, nausea, delirium and other common end of life symptoms
Understand and implement controlled drug governance, including legal and clinical responsibilities, documentation and common pitfalls
Make safer prescribing decisions to reduce cognitive side effects, anticholinergic burden and medication-related delirium
Improve safety and reliability in the use of syringe drivers and common syringe driver combinations
Demonstrate safe practice aligned to professional standards and prescribing competency frameworks
Build a stronger evidence trail for competence, CPD and revalidation
Lead prescribing practice locally through supervision, peer review, MDT working and service improvement
Use audit and evaluation to improve quality, safety and impact in your service