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1 - What is the experience of caregivers in relation to anticipatory medications? - Helen Hughes & Kerri McEvoy

2 - New COVID initiative - Introduction of the Just in Time Emergency Medicine Pack (JEMP) - Alice Crabtree

3 - The use of online videoconferencing for focus groups in palliative care research   - Alison Allam & Margaret Perkins

4 - Restricted Visiting During COVID -19 Pandemic :an uncomfortable oxymoron for hospice staff -  Anneka Burge

5 - Restricted visiting and gender influence perceptions about end-of-life care support: a national UK survey of bereaved relatives' views  - Catriona R Mayland

6 - The First 6 months: What did one Hospital Supportive and Palliative Care Team (SPCT) experience during the first 6 months of the CoVID-19 pandemic? - David Matthews

7 - Collaboration between palliative and critical care: a review of end of life care for patients with COVID-19 on the Critical Care Unit - Elizabeth Fleming

8 - An Evaluation of end of life care for patients with Covid-19 receiving non-invasive pulmonary support  - Elizabeth Woods

9 - Delivering Quality End of Life Care (EOLC) during a Pandemic: The Response of the Transforming End of Life Care Team (TEOLCT) to COVID-19 in an Acute London NHS Trust - Emily Collis

10 - What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic about admissions to a hospice IPU?  - Emily Meeks

11 - Experience of COVID-19 in a hospice inpatient unit: characteristics, symptoms and ethical issues - Emma Tempest

12 - Reflections on palliative care health care professionals' needs during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic "thematic analysis of a postgraduate cohort of students" discussion board - Fiona Rawlinson

13 - Supporting Community Palliative care resources is vital in the continuing pandemic - Fiona Rawlinson

14 - The development and evaluation of a virtual visiting programme facilitating regular friends and family contact for hospital inpatients during the COVID-19 pandemic - George Thomas

15 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Palliative Care at Wirral Hospice St John's - Holly Naylor

16 - Do symptom control needs differ in patients dying from COVID-19? A specialist palliative care experience from an acute trust - James Renshaw

17 - Is Routine Inpatient COVID-19 Testing Appropriate in the Hospice Setting? An Audit of Clinical Practice during the COVID-19 pandemic - Leila Donald

18 - Retrospective audit to assess for differences between patients dying of Covid-19 vs patients dying of other causes - Lina Alim, Holly Gaze, Sombul Qamar

19 - Do patients with COVID-19 require different end of life medications? - the experiences of a dual site Hospital Palliative Care Team - Lisa Boulstridge

20 - Developing symptom control guidance for COVID-19 patients who are deteriorating despite non-invasive ventilation (NIV) as their ceiling of treatment - Lowri Evans

21 - The effect of the COVID 19 pandemic on referrals and deaths at Meadow House Hospice (MHH) - Lucy Ison

22 - What can we learn from patients who died from SARS-CoV2 following escalation to a Respiratory High Dependency Unit for trial of Non-Invasive Respiratory Support? - Mary Miller

23 - Community palliative care and the Coronavirus pandemic: A retrospective analysis of symptom burden, advance care planning and survival in 115 newly referred patients "suspected Covid-19" compared with "control" - Megan Collins

24 - ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) in a Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Advance Care Planning in a UK University Hospital Cardiology Department - Milly West

25 - Treatment Escalation Plans in Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Oscar Short

26 - The end-of-life experiences for cancer patients with COVID-19; Reflections from 2 UK Cancer Centres     - Philippa McFarlane

27 - Evaluating the role of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust palliative care teams during the Covid-19 pandemic - Rory Carrigan

28 - A review of Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP) decision-making in an acute London trust during the COVID-19 pandemic - an audit-based study - Ruth Caulkin

29 - Discussions of Preferred Place of Death in secondary care during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Ruth Porther

30 - Remember Me: Support Through Remembrance During The COVID19 Pandemic - Sarah Stanley

31 - Effectiveness of a Palliative care resource toolkit for COVID 19 for Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) on health care workers knowledge and confidence levels - Sunitha Daniel

32 - Viewing the deceased person: Bereaved family uptake of a new service in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions - Wendy Walker

33 - Family carers and professionals' experiences of managing people living with dementia - nutrition and hydration needs towards the end-of-life - Nathan Davies

34 - Inspiring the future generation of oncologists: a UK-wide study of medical students' views towards Oncology - Anna Maria Wozniak

35 - Mentoring medical students towards oncology: results from a pilot multi-institutional mentorship programme - Anna Maria Wozniak

37 - Breaking bad news in complex palliative care situations through role-play simulation - Carlos Laranjeira

38 - 'The right information to the right people at the right time'- Design and delivery of a Palliative Medicine Education programme during COVID-19 - Catherine Doherty

39 - Virtual Response: an educational response to the Covid-19 pandemic - Clare Finnegan

40 - Frailty deserves a mention in the new UK Palliative Medicine Specialty Training Curriculum. A Meta-Synthesis and Delphi Study to establish appropriate content - Felicity Dewhurst

41 - Adapting a 2 day communication skills course for the covid-19 clinical and learning environment. Feedback and evaluations from day 1  - Fiona Rawlinson

42 - Are GP trainees ready to manage palliative care patients independently by completion of training?  - Grace Rowley

43 - "What matters to our patients - matters to all of us" An educational video to engage and promote a culture of inclusivity for clinical and non-clinical staff providing end of life care in an acute London NHS Trust - Jessica Wood

44 - Palliative Simulation for Internal Medicine Trainees (PALL-SIM-IM): A Nationally Adopted Education Initiative in Response to Shape of Training - Kate Howorth

45 - Using simulation training to introduce medical students to COVID-19 - Lisa Boulstridge

46 - Service evaluation of the use of Ketorolac at the Macmillan Palliative care unit (MPCU), Sheffield 2018-2019 - Maimoona Ali

47 - Evaluating the Impact of Medical Students in Hospice Teaching Ward Rounds - Rosanna Hill

48 - Supporting Internal Medicine Trainees to meet new curriculum competencies around end of life care: a novel simulation course - Ruth Caulkin

49 - A COVID-19 End-of-Life Multi-Professional Simulation Course to prepare staff for difficult conversations with patients and relatives during the pandemic - Sabrina Vitello

50 - Time Critical Telephone Conversations in the Emergency Department - A pilot educational project to improve communication skills over the telephone when breaking bad news to relatives - Sarah Edwards

51 - Introduction of the Role of Assistant Practitioner in a Palliative Care Setting  - Sarah Stanley

52 - A virtual multidisciplinary journal club - Sarah Stanley

53 - An Audit Investigating the Role of Nasal High Flow Oxygen Therapy in Oncology patients - is it delaying appropriate palliation? - Seema Green

54 - Busting some myths of online delivery of palliative care education  - Sian Gallard

55 - The use of breakout rooms and interaction to create a community of practice in a virtual learning environment  - Sian Gallard

56 - Learning From Deaths: The Structured Judgement Review - Stephanie Lister-Flynn

57 - Community end-of-life anticipatory medication prescribing practice: retrospective mixed methods observational study - Ben Bowers

58 - Anticipatory Prescribing for Continuous Sub-Cutaneous Infusion: Friend or Foe? - Clare E Finnegan

59 - Re-audit of the assessment of the use of Intravenous/Subcutaneous fluids in patients in the last days of life - Emma Shereston

60 - Withdrawal of Non-Invasive Ventilation in Patients With Type 2 Respiratory Failure at Kettering General Hospital - Fiona Wiseman

61 - Is high fidelity simulation an effective way to teach palliative and end of life care skills to registered nurses? - Fiona Wiseman

62 - Changing preference for, and actual place of death, among palliative care patients: a secondary data analysis - Fliss E M Murtagh

63 - To explore factors involved in "short" end of life care admissions within a hospice setting  - Isae Kilonzo

64 - Evaluation of ReSPECT form documentation in a hospice inpatient unit - Francesca Stoneley

65 - The Use of Optiflow Therapy in a Specialist Cancer Hospital and it's implication for Patients receiving Palliative Care - Jennifer Skinner

66 - Assessing the quality of end of life care in patients dying in an acute hospital in London and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic - Joanna Davies

67 - Gold Standards Framework Implementation Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust - Joanne Bowen

68 - Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator deactivation in the community: the perspective of palliative care professionals - Joy Ross

69 - Learning from a case report:  Developing a checklist to facilitate discharge home from critical care at the end of life - Kalyani Snell

70 - A review of end of life care of patients on high flow nasal cannula at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne - Kalyani Snell

71 - How and when to ask cancer patients with a palliative diagnosis about corneal donation. A questionnaire based study - Laura Cochran

72 - The Butterfly Project - Improving Treatment Escalation Planning in the Emergency Department - Lisa Keillor

73 - Hospital Admissions and Hospital Deaths in Meadow House Hospice (MHH) Community Patients - Lucy Ison

74 - Helping non-specialists improve assessment of "end of life care" phase in Structured Judgement Reviews  - Mary Miller

75 - An audit to evaluate the management of diabetes in the last days of life across the North West of England - Rachel Taylor

76 - ReSPECT: Find Out What it Means to Me - A patient's perspective - Roop Gill

77 - Mouth care and hydration at the end of life: A survey for medical staff - Rosanna Hill

78 - Advance Care Planning in Hospital in the Last Year of Life: Where are we now? - Sarah MacDonald

79 - Does the anticipation of death increase the likelihood of hospital inpatients receiving spiritual or religious care during their final admission? Results of an audit of patient records from a tertiary care centre in central England - Sian Warner

80 - A Death by Any Other Name: The Use of Euphemisms in the Medical Notes of Patients Dying in a Large Tertiary Care Centre in Central England  - Sona Petrosyan

81 - A qualitative study of family carer experience of anticipatory prescribing of injectable medications for end of life care at home - Victoria Hedges

82 - Public understandings of palliative care in three settings: home, hospice, hospital - Andrew Gill

83 - Addressing spiritual needs, facilities and barriers in Portuguese palliative care: a cross-sectional survey - Carlos Laranjeira

84 - Shaheen Palliative care project, Pakistan - Maimoona Ali

85 - More than a Gut Feeling: A Literature Review of Managing Pain Associated with Oesophageal Stenting - Louisa Nelms

86 - Case Report: Respiratory depression following a switch in oxycodone preparations treated with subcutaneous naloxone - Mairéad Doherty

87 - Hope, comfort and quality of life of palliative patients: correlation to the place of care - Ana Querido

88 - Exploring Confidence of Palliative Care Professionals in the Identification and Assessment of Mental Health Problems and Risk - Lauri Simkiss

89 - So when a woman becomes ill, the total structure of the family is affected, they can't do anything, so the kids studies will be affected, husband's work is affected - Voices from the community on women with breast cancer in LMIC; a qualitative focus group study - Sunitha Daniel

90 - Evaluating the use of digital communication technology in a hospital specialist palliative care team during the COVID-19 pandemic - Amara Nwosu

91 - Enhancing the quality of out of hours telephone advice: A decision support tool for nursing staff - Andrew Tan

92 - Assessing the Quality of Hospital Discharge Letters for Patients Known to the Palliative Care Services at a Large Tertiary Care Centre in Central England: A Service Evaluation - Angus Grant

93 - An audit of a hospice paracentesis service before and during Covid19 - Anna Gray

94 - A qualitative study to explore the experiences and roles of early adopters in the early implementation of Magnolia House, a new facility for sharing life-altering information and bereavement care - Anna Hilton

95 - Service evaluation: Identifying factors contributing to prolonged admissions at Marie Curie Hospice, Newcastle  - Anne-Marie Bourke

96 - Estimation of palliative care needs of people experiencing homelessness using mortality data and cause-of-death - Aoibheann Conneely

97 - Prospective audit of patients admitted to a newly established Supportive Care Unit in Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) - Bethan Roberts

98 - Improving use of Co-Ordinate my care Electronic Patient Record at St Christopher's Hospice - completing the audit cycle - Christopher Doyle

99 - "To feed or not to feed": Review of practice in an acute hospital trust around initiation and withdrawal of parenteral nutrition (PN) in palliative patients - David Matthews

100 - Outcomes for inpatients with chronic liver disease, is there a need for better palliative care provision? - Eleanor Hendicott

101 - A Ketamine Pathway: Responding to a need for quality improvement in ketamine burst therapy - Elizabeth Farrer

102 - Demonstrating how being available for advice enhances patient care - Emma Tempest

103 - QIP: Implementing a Palliative Care Electronic Patient Profile to Improve MDT Communication and Handover  - Fiona Richardson

104 - The Development of a Supportive and Palliative Care Liver Service within an Acute Hospital Trust to Support Patients with Advanced Liver Disease - Jayne Kennedy

105 - Breaking barriers and building bridges: a synergistic future for palliative care in Liverpool  - Katherine Rugen

106 - Qualitative analysis of Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) within the Medicine of the Elderly (MOE) Directorate at the Western General Hospital - Katie Robinson

107 - A service evaluation of a new policy to support carers giving subcutaneous anticipatory medications at home at end of life within Southern Derbyshire, population of 607,000 - Mary Lewis

108 - A Study to Explore Hospice Catering Staff's Experiences with Palliative and Dying Patients - Rebecca Darge

109 - Developing an early palliative care service within myeloma outpatients - Rebecca Gemmell

110 - Personalised End-of-Life Care Plans - a local review  - Rebecca Tweddell

111 - Heart Failure - the experience of living with end-stage heart failure and accessing care across settings  - Rosemary Chester

112 - Specialist Palliative and End of Life Timely Intervention Project (SPELTIP) on the Emergency Floor - Outcomes from the first 20 weeks - Sarah Edwards

113 - Implementing video consultations in a UK hospice during the Covid-19 pandemic: learning from healthcare professionals' feedback  - Shannon Milne

114 - A service evaluation of video consultations in a UK hospice during the Covid-19 pandemic: learning from patients' and carers' feedback - Shannon Milne

115 - Time for a change? Transforming the investigation and management of anaemia in the palliative care population - Sophie Jones

116 - Palliative Care Provision on the Intensive Care Unit: A Service Evaluation of Identification of Need, Method of Delivery, and Quality of Care - Stephanie Hill

117 - A retrospective audit to assess if advance care planning (ACP) discussions were initiated prior to in-patient death at a specialist cancer centre   - Stephanie Ainley

118 - Planning and implementation of a cancer control program with integration of primary health care and palliative care services in a Low Middle Income Country - Sunitha Daniel

119 - VTE Prophylaxis for Patients in a Specialist Palliative Care Centre: A Quality Improvement Project      - Yuxuan Zhang

120 - Artificial intelligence in palliative care: a systematic review to identify how novel data analytic technologies are used in the management of people with serious illness - Amara Nwosu

121 - Effect of hope-based program on the hope of people with palliative needs: a RCT pilot study in Portugal - Ana Isabel Querido

122 - What are the palliative care needs of patients undergoing Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma/ primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma at a regional centre? - Charlotte Stenson

123 - Improving quality of life in malignant ascites with indwelling peritoneal drains - Joanna Coleman

124 - Ultrasound Use in the Community Setting  - Leena Patel

125 - A review of patients requiring large volume paracentesis for malignant ascites - Sadé Hacking

126 - A Scoping Review of the Implementation of Non-medical Devices for the Self-management of Chronic Breathlessness - Aliya Syahreni Prihartadi

127 - Improving the Identification and Management of Constipation on the Palliative Care Unit, Wansbeck General Hospital - Elizabeth Marsh

128 - What enables and constrains shared decision-making about opiates for people living with chronic breathlessness? A systematic narrative review and framework analysis of published data using a program theory of shared decision-making  - Giovanna Impelliziere Licastro

129 - Balancing patient benefit and risk of resistance: An audit of hospice antimicrobial prescribing - Jolene Brown

130 - Measuring serum-ascites albumin gradient to optimize management of ascites in a hospice setting     - Katherine Bevan

131 - Myotonic Dystrophy: the interface with Palliative Medicine, a series of cases - Laura Dewhirst

132 - Do antibiotics improve the IPOS reported burden of symptoms of pain, breathlessness and confusion? - Lucy Taylor

133 - Dramatic responses to Dabrafenib - challenges for palliative care providers in the new era of targeted therapy and immunotherapy - Mairéad Doherty

134 - Case Report: Indwelling peritoneal catheter insertion for management of massive ascites in a young patient with congestive cardiac failure  - Mary Holloway

135 - The use of opioids in syringe drivers: an audit across 2 Specialist Palliative Care Services in the East Midlands Region - Rebecca Robinson

136 - A review of the use of mucolytic agents in Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Is there benefit to using multiple agents over mono-therapy? - Richard Price

137 - Improving safety of opioid prescribing and administration on a hospice inpatient unit (IPU) - - Sarah Longwell

138 - The use and prescribing of opioids, benzodiazepines and antipsychotics in syringe pumps - Sophie Harrison

139 - Clinical learning from a Transition service - Joanna Elverson

140 - Case report: from critical care, to specialist palliative care unit, to home. Initial presentation of high-grade serous carcinoma of fallopian tube origin as dermatomyositis with rapid onset and progression: an example of multidisciplinary team working during the coronavirus pandemic - Sadé Hacking