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Compton Hospice Education and Training Centre

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Welcome to the new prospectus, detailing over 50 study days and short courses covering a range of issues relating to palliative care. There are also longer academic courses run in partnership with the School of Health at the University of Wolverhampton.

I am confident you will find something of interest. The current national and local healthcare agenda requires practitioners to be competent in a range of skills, underpinned by evidence-based knowledge and our courses are designed to meet the requirements of, e.g. the NICE Guidance for Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer, and the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework.

These programmes are provided by Birmingham and The Black Country Palliative Care Education Consortium, incorporating Compton Hospice, Wolverhampton, Birmingham St Mary's and St Giles, Lichfield and are free to staff working for all NHS organisations within Birmingham and the Black Country. Funding is provided by NHS West Midlands Workforce Institute.

Programmes in this prospectus are held at:

Compton Hospice Education and Training Centre
The Cedars, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton WV3 9DW
Telephone: 01902 774555
Email: educationadmin@compton-hospice.org.uk

Please remember to include a £20.00 cheque to book your place on any individual study day - this will be returned to you on the day and helps to reduce the number of people who book and then do not attend. If you are self-funding and either intend to book three or more courses, or three or more participants are attending from one team, please contact the administrative officers as we do offer special rates.

New for this year:

  • MSc Multiprofessional Palliative Care
  • Lymphoedema Degree modules
  • Disadvantaged dying
  • Compassion for self, compassion for others

As a centre of excellence, Compton Hospice has a responsibility to share its knowledge in palliative care for the benefit of the wider community. If this is the first time you are attending a course we welcome you, if you are returning to further your studies, welcome back.

Please telephone the department if there is any further information you require on your chosen study.

For details of other courses within this group please contact:

Birmingham St Mary's
176 Raddlebarn Road
Selly Park
Birmingham B29 7DA
0121 472 1191
conference@st-marys-hospice.org.uk

St Giles
Fisherwick Road
Whittington
Lichfield WS14 9LH
01543 432031
education@st-giles-hospice.org.uk

Dr Alison Littleford
Head of Education and Training