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This year our Annual National Conference will be held at Kents Hill Park, Training and Conference Centre Milton Keynes on the 19-20 September 2019.

The title for this year’s conference is ‘Back to the Future: Respecting the Fundamentals’.  The focus will be on developing, benchmarking and sustaining hospice at home services into the future and promoting ways of managing staff and organisational resilience.  This should help us to further influence commissioning agendas.

We have an exciting conference programme planned and the call for posters.  When open please do submit an abstract and remember to secure your Early Bird Member rate at the conference.  This rate is an added benefit of your membership renewal and enables us to give you a highly competitive rate for a residential event.

HCA Workshop 2019 – Sharing Best Practice

The NAHH are delighted to be running the HCA Workshops in 2019.  The programme “Sharing Best Practice; Caring for People at Home who are approaching the End of their Lives” an Interactive study day for Health Care Assistants

Click here to find out more and to register

The NAHH have set up a New advertising page on the website.

Click here find out what is new and to see our advertising costs.

Together for Short Lives has launched a ground-breaking new funding programme to help address the cliff edge in care experienced by young adults in their transition from children’s to adult services. The programme is funding innovative projects that have the potential to transform the experience of young people with life-limiting conditions as they prepare for and move on to adult services.

Applications for Round Two of the Improving Transitions for Young People Fund will open in March 2018. The Together for Short Lives website will be updated with more details when they are available: http://www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/transitionawards

The NAHH have sent a succinct report to NICE regarding End of Life Care services which includes citing several examples provided by member services in the last 12 months.

The report is available to download here

The NAHH thanks contributors and welcome any further responses and is aware that some member services will have submitted more detailed evidence on behalf of your Hospice at Home service through their organisation.

The NAHH Trustees are delighted to share the news that a recent article written by Kay Greene and Lesley Spencer, has been published in the European Journal of Palliative Care (EJPC). The article outlines the NAHH strategy and explains who the NAHH is and what our Association’s goals are.

The article can be downloaded here -> 

This document is held under copyright by Hayward Group Ltd, publisher of the European Journal of Palliative Care. It may be downloaded for single academic use only. Reproduction for any other purpose is not allowed. For further information, please contact the editorial team by clicking here.

A new role that will sit alongside existing nursing care support workers and fully-qualified registered nurses to deliver hands-on care moved a step closer today as Health Education England (HEE) published the response to its recent consultation on the Nursing Associate role.

The consultation attracted more than 1,000 responses from individuals including patients, members of the public and a wide range of organisations including professional bodies, trade unions, health care and social care providers and commissioners of healthcare. The role will be given the title Nursing Associate. In order to get the implementation of the Nursing Associate role right, HEE intends to appoint ‘test sites’. Five workshops will take place in England in July so that HEE can engage with stakeholders on the scope of practice of the new role. Early test sites will recruit 1,000 students to start training for the new role in 2017.

To view the response to the consultation, visit https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/developing-our-workforce/nursing/new-support-role-nursing

Join Lisa Bayliss-Pratt, HEE’s Nursing Director, for a Twitter chat on the @WeNurses platform on Tuesday 7 June (8-9pm) to debate areas of the consultation and ask questions.

Barbara A. Jack, Tracy K. Mitchell, Louise C. Cope & Mary R. O’Brien have written this interesting article entitled:

“ Supporting older people with cancer and life-limiting conditions dying at home: a qualitative study of patient and family caregiver experiences of Hospice at Home care ”

Download the document below:

Jack et al 2016 – Journal of Advanced Nursing

We are delighted to announce that registration for our national annual conference is now open.

The annual conference of the National Association for Hospice at Home is to be held at Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel & Spa, Bristol on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th September 2016.

The theme is:

“Hospice at Home – achieving national ambitions, making an impact”.

We are in the process of finalising an exciting programme to include keynote presentations from:

Mr John Powell
Corporate Director of Health and Social Care Integration, London Borough of Redbridge

Dr Jane Collines
Chief Executive, Marie Curie

Dr Fliss Murtagh
Reader and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Cicely Saunders Institute

Dr Ros Taylor
Clinical Director, Hospice UK

The NAHH is delighted to have received some highly positive feedback from two member services about the benefits and impacts the Association provides for them.

Please do read these on the dedicated Testimonials page →.

The NAHH Trustees encourage and welcome feedback so please do get in touch if you wish to share anything with us.