Assessment and Care Planning in Palliative & End of Life Care

Explore the importance of holistic palliative care assessments and reassessments, detailing what should be included and the documentation that supports these assessments. Participants will learn how to utilise assessment findings to plan care effectively and explore various guidance, tools, and resources to support assessment and care planning. The session will also identify barriers, health inequalities, and protected characteristics, and apply learning to clinical scenarios to incorporate assessment and care planning.

Learning Outcomes

• Recognise the importance of holistic palliative care assessment and reassessments.
• Understand what should be included in a palliative care assessment, and the documentation that can be used to support it.
• Recognise how to utilise assessment findings to plan care.
• Explore guidance, tools and resources that can be utilised to support assessment and care planning.
• Identify barriers, health inequalities and protected characteristics.
• Apply learning from the session to a clinical scenario incorporating assessment and care planning.

Session details

Where:
This training is delivered via Microsoft Teams.

Please  join the webinar 5 minutes before the start time. You will remain in the waiting room until the facilitator accepts you to join.  

When:

• 23 June 2026, 2pm - 3:30pm

Who:

The session is suitable for registered staff within care homes. If you are unsure if you can attend this webinar please contact socialcareacademy@staffordshire.gov.uk.

This training is equivalent to 90 minutes participatory time for CPD. A certificate will be provided upon completion of this training.

This training does discuss death and dying, and may be upsetting for some audiences.

This training was developed and delivered by the MPFT Palliative and End of Life Care Team (Palliative + EOLC).