If you are unable to join us on Day 1, please visit the registration desk on arrival to collect your badge. Our team will be available to help you check in quickly and easily. If you attended yesterday, simply wear your badge and head straight to your chosen sessions.

Registration teas and coffee are served

Friday Posters will be available to view in Pier Eight Room

Platform poster session for Early Career Researchers

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Care home residents make up under 1% of the population but around 8% of emergency admissions, and their final months are too often punctuated by ambulance journeys, corridors and unfamiliar teams. This symposium pairs new science with enduring values, using one geriatrician-led care home service as a lens on how we might do better. EnRICH (Enhanced Reviews in Care Homes) delivers proactive comprehensive geriatric assessment, reactive acute review, and continuity into hospital for care home residents across Cambridge. Its controlled evaluation, published in Age and Ageing (2026), found 23% fewer emergency admissions and 32% shorter length of stay across 11 interventions versus 43 control homes, with benefits emerging over three to twelve months. Newer, unpublished analysis suggests planned as well as unplanned hospital demand fell; in-situ assessment appears to substitute for burdensome outpatient journeys. But numbers are only half the story. The session threads one resident's final year throughout, told first as it happened before in-reach, then as it happened with it, and gives voice to the care home team who lived it: on confidence, empowerment and dying in place. We then open the harder question the model raises: who owns dying in care homes, and where does specialist palliative care add most value alongside geriatric in-reach? A panel with live audience polling debates what should be replicated and what should not, with implications for the Enhanced Health in Care Homes framework, ICB commissioning and a planned qualitative follow-on study to answer some of these questions. Delegates will leave able to describe an integrated interface model and its evidence, identify where specialist palliative care expertise might fit and appraise its transferability to their own systems.

Take a moment to explore our exhibition space and poster displays. It’s a great opportunity to discover new ideas and be inspired by innovation across our community. We encourage you to browse, engage, and enjoy everything on show throughout the day.

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Cancer affects the whole family, yet adults and children can experience significant unmet needs throughout the incurable cancer experience. Drawing on a programme of family-centred cancer care research, this keynote will bring together evidence, practice and impact to consider how we can better recognise and respond to the needs of families. Delegates will explore evidence on the challenges and support needs experienced by adults and children when a parent or significant caregiver has cancer, alongside the challenges health and social care professionals encounter in providing family-centred care. The session will provide practical tools and approaches to support best practice, including how to initiate important conversations with adults about their children and family circumstances. Drawing on formal evaluations, the keynote will examine the impact of translating this evidence into clinical practice and what has been learned about supporting sustained change. It will also look ahead to emerging challenges for family-centred cancer care, including the growing role of digital health and artificial intelligence in how families access information and support, and what this means for the services and resources we provide. Finally, the session will consider how deprivation can compound the challenges experienced by families and what is needed to ensure family-centred cancer care is equitable, accessible and responsive to those experiencing greatest need.

This interactive workshop introduces CURA, an evidence-based instrument for ethical reflection specifically developed for palliative care professionals used in several international settings. CURA consists of four structured steps that help healthcare professionals explore a morally difficult situation by slowing down, reflecting on emotions and perspectives, identifying the values at stake, and considering an appropriate course of action. Designed to be completed in approximately 30–45 minutes, CURA can be integrated into everyday clinical practice without requiring an ethicist. Facilitated by the philosopher who developed CURA and a clinician-ethicist, this workshop combines a brief introduction to the theoretical background of CURA with experiential learning, small-group reflection, and plenary discussion. Participants will experience a condensed CURA session based on a real-life palliative care case and reflect on how the method can support good palliative care in morally complex situations. Participants will also gain practical understanding of the method, insights into its evidence base, and concrete ideas for using CURA to support healthcare professionals facing moral challenges in palliative care. The workshop is intended for clinicians, researchers, educators, managers, and others interested in strengthening feasible ethical reflection and ethics support in palliative care bedside practice.

Take a moment to explore our exhibition space and poster displays. It’s a great opportunity to discover new ideas and be inspired by innovation across our community. We encourage you to browse, engage, and enjoy everything on show throughout the day.

This session aims to: 1. Explore the context of increasing palliative care inequities within a globalised world, with a focus on cultural diversity and financial hardship. 2. Introduce the Respect–Trust–Equity (RTE) model, developed to support inclusive recruitment in palliative care research. 3. Explore how the principles underpinning the RTE model can be applied broadly to palliative care practice and research. Anticipated outcomes: Participants will develop an understanding of the RTE model and its practical application across palliative care research and practice. They will identify opportunities to strengthen culturally responsive, trauma-informed and financially sensitive approaches within their own settings and leave with practical strategies for building trust and advancing equity.

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