As a volunteer, from walking through the door at St Ann’s you experience great warmth and friendship from everyone.Betty Murphy, St Ann’s volunteer

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Training courses

Our highly experienced and professional team deliver courses and workshops on a range of clinical and non-clinical topics.

Exploring Spirituality

Days: 1 · Fee: £75 · Next date: 16 February 2012

This one day workshop aims to improve health and social care practitioners’ understanding and awareness of spirituality and equip them with the skills and confidence to offer meaningful spiritual care.

Understanding cancer

Days: 2 · Fee: £150 · Next date: 18 April 2012

This course gives a broad overview of the nature of cancer and its treatments.

Incident and near miss reporting

Days: 2 hours · Fee: £25 · Next date: 09 February 2012

This half day course aims to share a Hospice’s experience of introducing and managing a generic incident/near miss reporting system.

The management of cancer related fatigue in adults

Days: 2 · Fee: £150 · Next date: 14 November 2012
(Early bird discount £125 - book by 19/10/2012)

This course offers a practical approach to the screening, assessment and management of cancer-related fatigue, enabling health care professionals to support their patients more effectively.

Palliative care emergencies

Days: 1 · Fee: £75 · Next date: 17 May 2012
(Early bird discount £60 - book by 19/04/2012)

This course aims to provide an introduction to situations requiring urgent action within palliative care and an opportunity to consider issues that may be raised by such events.