Palliative Care and Heart Failure

This event will take place online on Tuesday 29 June 2021Palliative Care and Heart Failure Virtual Conference 29th June 2021

Join us as we share expertise from world renowned keynote speakers and innovative approaches to improving the lives of patients with heart failure and palliative care needs. Reflecting on research, experience and emerging practice, this event provides the ideal opportunity to drive discussion and unlock ideas together.

Who should attend?

We welcome clinicians from cardiology and palliative care backgrounds, allied healthcare professionals and others.

World class keynote speakers include:

Dr James Beattie – Consultant Cardiologist and Heart Failure Lead, member of the British Society for Heart Failure and the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology and Trustee of the National Council for Palliative Care

Professor Miriam Johnson – Professor of Palliative Medicine at Hull York Medical School, Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull

Dr Purushottam Desai – Consultant Cardiologist, University Hospitals Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Dr Haider J Warraich – Associate Director, Heart Failure Program, VA Boston, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Full details can be found on the speakers tab on the right hand side. 

Packed programme of panel discussions and workshops include:

  • What do people with advanced heart failure want us to research?
  • Ethical decision making
  • The migrant experience
  • Heart failure needs assessment
  • Fatigue, anxiety and breathlessness
  • Oedema management (drug and non-pharm)
  • HF and Palliative Care Making it work in practice

Full details can be found on the programme tab on the right hand side.