Background There is a predicted 25% rise in deaths over the next 20 years, a situation further compounded by a 42% increase in those requiring palliative support. Hospice staff’s education and skills development is paramount to meet this challenge and ensure high-quality palliative and end of life care is delivered (NHS. The NHS long term plan. 2019).

Aims and Objectives To understand areas where clinical staff have reduced confidence in knowledge and develop a curriculum.

Method To ensure the co-production of the curriculum, Willen Hospice undertook the following steps:

• Reviewed existing training needs.

• Surveyed staff.

Aligned to palliative and end of life care capabilities in Practice and Education Framework (2024).

Findings Staff wanted to increase confidence and capabilities in various clinical areas. Weekly program planned over the next 12 months.

Discussion Our approach has been to harness the knowledge and experience in the wider team, and to develop clinical champion groups to support the program. The clinical champion competency has been developed to ensure clear roles and responsibilities. The Practice Development team will help ensure the embedding and succession of the program through:

• Audit of champion groups.

• Attendance at initial set–up/refresh of an existing group, to support with establishing Terms of Reference.

• Promoting the expectations of the group to:

  • Review appropriate eLearning, relevant policies and procedures, incident themes

  • Plan relevant education

  • Have links with relevant specialist teams, attending local/national conferences, undertake CPD, as appropriate, to develop subject knowledge.

  • Explore national promotion days and where possible promote at Willen Hospice.

Conclusions and Future Actions Systematically evaluating the confidence, knowledge, and capabilities of staff through surveys, evaluations on each session and appraisal. We have also organised a ‘training request area’ on the staff notice board, so co-production of the curriculum is promoted.