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CPE STUDY DAY: Diversity in End of Life Care

5 July 2012

End of Life Study Day

On Tuesday 3rd July the Centre for Public Education delivered a course to Barts Health NHS Trust on 'Diversity in End of Life Care: A Muslim/Jewish Case Study'.This one-day course offered a variety of participants, from chaplains, nurses, social workers and bereavement advisers, an opportunity to develop skills and knowledge to engage confidently with patients and their families in conversations about end of life care in cases affected by religious beliefs and practices, with particular reference to Islam and Judaism.

Subjects covered included:

Cultural vs. Religious Issues
Definition of death
What it means to be religious
Withholding & withdrawing treatment
Withholding & withdrawing nutrition & hydration
The role of Chaplains

This course was awarded with 6 CPD credits from the Royal College of Physicians and was delivered free to all internal candidates at The Barts Health NHS Trust. For more information, or to discuss future possibilities for hosting the course, please contact Trisha Kessler at: trisha.kessler@woolf.cam.ac.uk

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