Somerset End of Life Care

02/10/2025

We're delighted to say that bookings for our Palliative Care Ambassador course for 2026 are now OPEN!
This 3 day course is a deep dive into many aspects of palliative care and a wonderful opportunity for staff passionate about great end of life care. Having the unique opportunity to become an Ambassador gives you:
- Support to teach EOL subjects in your team/department from our team
- Support to develop EOL projects to enrich the patient experience
- Opportunities to steward our public and community events
- A link role between our specialist team and yours

We have two new aspects to the course for this year...
Firstly, this year we have dates available in Yeovil District Hospital
Secondly, we are delighted to offer a small handful of spaces to our external community colleagues
Apply here for LEAP https://leap.somersetft.nhs.uk/course/view.php?id=665
Apply here for external staff
https://forms.office.com/e/uTFem9pcKp

25/09/2025

We've had a great three days teaching Trsicombe ward at Musgrove Park all about symptom management and communication skills for EOLC

All our courses are available to book through LEAP or Eventbrite, but it's always brilliant to have the opportunity to talk to entire teams!

23/09/2025

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Organ donation has saved over 100,000 lives since the official launch of the organ donation register just over 30 years ago.

Learn more at https://somerset.eolcare.uk/ just follow the links under 'Advance Care Planning'

14/08/2025

We've been blown away by the response from the community to our new course so we're delighted to say that our first few initial dates are now available to book via Eventbrite...book quickly to avoid disappointment, spaces are limited!
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/introduction-to-care-of-the-dying-person-4546563

We're delighted to launch our new course today for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust nursing and health care assistant staff members

Caring for a dying person is something we only have once chance to get right...come and learn more about communication and symptom control at this important time

Our dates are bookable on LEAP from today! https://leap.somersetft.nhs.uk/course/view.php?id=2095

Work outside the Trust but interested in bringing this course to your organisation? Email us today EOLCEducation@SomersetFT.nhs.uk to discuss how we can help. As always, all our education is taught by palliative care experts and FREE to all those working with people with life limiting conditions in Somerset

12/08/2025

We're delighted to launch our new course today for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust nursing and health care assistant staff members

Caring for a dying person is something we only have once chance to get right...come and learn more about communication and symptom control at this important time

Our dates are bookable on LEAP from today! https://leap.somersetft.nhs.uk/course/view.php?id=2095

Work outside the Trust but interested in bringing this course to your organisation? Email us today EOLCEducation@SomersetFT.nhs.uk to discuss how we can help. As always, all our education is taught by palliative care experts and FREE to all those working with people with life limiting conditions in Somerset

25/07/2025

We still have spaces available for some of our FREE open-to-all education events this autumn

Treatment Escalation Planning Conversation Skills Workshop - a 2 hour online workshop with the TEP Lead for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust covering how to have this all important conversation- 9th Sept and 11th Nov

Grief and Bereavement Workshop 30th September - in collaboration with Josephine's Star, the Frome Grief Network and St Margaret's Somerset Hospice were delighted to bring this one off grief workshop to staff working across Somerset

Communication in End of Life Care - 2nd October, 4th December
Our flagship one day course covering empathetic communication skills, advance care planning, symptom management in the last days of life, spirituality in end of life care and palliative rehabilitation

Booking all via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/somerset-eolc-education-team-42690042023

21/07/2025

As a team we were so sad to learn the news surrounding the devastating crash on Cutcombe Hill.
Sending so much love to the Minehead and surrounding community as they navigate this terrible loss.
As a local hub we would like to offer our collective knowledge around bereavement resources to those struggling; please do reach out if we can be of help

15/07/2025

We had a brilliant day supporting discussions around the 'Last 1000 Days' programme today 💫
So many professionals from so many different organisations coming together to think about making the most of the most precious patient commodity...time