West Midlands End of Life Education Consortium
Since 2006, three West Midlands hospices – Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice, Compton Hospice and St Giles Hospice – have been working in partnership, as the West Midlands End of Life Education Consortium, to deliver comprehensive programmes of high quality, specialist training and education in End of Life and Palliative Care for health and social care professionals. The hospice teaching teams are highly skilled educationalists in their own right, coming from a wide range of backgrounds, including nursing, social work, psychotherapy, counselling and the allied health professions.
By working in collaboration, the Consortium has greater flexibility and overall capacity to be responsive to identified gaps, to changing workforce demands and to new service developments. The Consortium brings together three teams, creating an extensive resource which can be enhanced by numerous opportunities to share teaching staff and to draw upon additional specialist practitioners.
The Consortium provides clinically focused and integrated education programmes at a local level, which reflect the needs expressed by commissioners and by health and social care practitioners. The Consortium has conference centre facilities and bespoke training rooms with modern IT facilities and education tools on hospice sites in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield. The co-ordinated planning of programmes across the Consortium improves access and value for money, reduces duplication and provides increased opportunities for education and training.
For further information on training available, please log on to www.endoflifeconsortium.co.uk or telephone 0300 456 22 68
2010/11 Prospectus
Click here to download the West Midlands End of Life Education Consortium prospectus
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