Community Development Conference - Each community is prepared to help

The programme for the day can be found HERE 

The presentations from the day can be found HERE

Venue: St Christopher's Hospice, 51-59 Lawrie Park Road, Sydenham, London SE26 6DZ

This one day conference ran as a partnership between:

• Public Health and Palliative Care International (UK Branch)
• The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC)
• Hospice UK
• St Christopher's Hospice  

Key Speakers
Professor Debbie Horsfall -  University of Western Sydney
Professor Allan Kellehear - Academic Director, DHEZ Health and Wellbeing Centre and 50th Anniversary Professor (End-of-Life Care), University of Bradford

Aims and Objectives

• be the first to hear about new expert guidance supporting strand six of the Ambitions framework for palliative and end of life care, 'each community is prepared to help'
• evaluation from the Dying Well Community Charter Pathfinders
• hear about the practical experience and work of the Dying Well Community Charter Pathfinders
• learn about how to start a new public health project in your setting
• understand how to evaluate or conduct formal research on your project
• hear about which cities are initiating the Compassionate City Charter and how
• learn from the experience and work of the Dying Well Community Charter pathfinders
• hear about progress with the Cabinet Office and Hospice UK's social action at the end of life work
• hear about cutting edge research in the new public health field

Who should come?

• Practitioners, commissioners, academics, policy makers, people making a difference in their community, and all those who want to understand how community development will improve end of life care
• Anyone interested in new public health approaches and community development in health and social care