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Abstracts

Oral presentations

• 1: 10 steps to facilitating patient death at home (1 September, 2016) Free

  Doa’a Kerwat, Meelad Sayma, Dina Saleh, Folashade Oyewole, Samad Wahid, Shiraz Jamshaid, Aaniya Ahmed
• 2: How current UK research addresses out of hours palliative care (1 September, 2016) Free

  Florence Todd Fordham, Stevie McMillan, Sabine Best, Bridget Candy, Sanjay Thakrar, Bill Noble
• 3: Using electronic primary care record searching to help identify people with palliative and anticipatory care needs for 24/7 care (1 September, 2016) Free

  Bruce Mason, Kirsty Boyd, John Steyn, Marilyn Kendall, Scott A Murray
• 4: One year mortality: recognising the need for urgent or advance care planning in adults aged over 70 years old following emergency admission (1 September, 2016) Free

  A-M Bielinska, A Obanobi, J Riley, CE Urch

Poster presentations

• 5: Co-development strategy for successful recruitment of patients to a qualitative research study on compassion in a UK inpatient hospice (1 September, 2016) Free

  Kathy Armour, Rachel Grubb, Hannah Palfrey, Jonathan Ives
• 6: Multi-disciplinary research team approach to recruiting patients, close persons and healthcare professionals in hospices (1 September, 2016) Free

  Kathy Armour, Cathy L Campbell, Cara Bailey, Philip Kinghorn, Rosanna Orlando, Rachel Perry, Louise Jones, Joanna Coast
• 7: How far can we trust proxy respondents for patients receiving supportive and palliative care who are unable to consent to research? (1 September, 2016) Free

  Cara Bailey, Philip Kinghorn, Rosanna Orlando, Kathy Armour, Rachel Perry, Louise Jones, Joanna Coast
• 8: Making sense of advanced cancer: using narrative at the end of life to identify information and supportive care needs (1 September, 2016) Free

  Nicky Baker, Kathy Armour, Sabi Redwood, Chantal Meystre, Angus Dawson
• 9: A qualitative exploration of the lived experience of inpatients receiving support from the hospital specialist palliative care team (HSPCT), in one acute hospital setting (1 September, 2016) Free

  Anne Black, Catriona Mayland, Tamsin McGlinchey, Maureen Gambles, John Ellershaw
• 10: Heart failure care or palliative care? Patients want and need both (1 September, 2016) Free

  Mary Brice, Amanda Martin, Penny Hansford, Heather Richardson, Rob George, Fliss Murtagh
• 11: The role of the volunteer research assistant in a hospice setting (1 September, 2016) Free

  Charlotte Brigden, Jeff Southon, Declan Cawley
• 12: “What makes it worth the investment to say it?” – Care experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans* people facing life-limiting illness: a qualitative interview study (1 September, 2016) Free

  Katherine Bristowe, Matthew Hodson, Bee Wee, Kathryn Almack, Barbara Daveson, Jonathan Koffman, Linda McEnhill, Katherine Johnson, Richard Harding
• 13: Supported self-management of analgesia and related treatments at the end of life (1 September, 2016) Free

  Natasha Campling, Sue Latter, Alison Richardson, Matthew Mulvey, Michael Bennett
• 14: Understanding complex need in palliative care: the perceptions of professionals across 3 settings (1 September, 2016) Free

  Sarah Johnston, Catherine Winstanley, Jamie Morrish, Anne Finucane, Juliet Spiller, Emma Carduff
• 15: Supporting adults bereaved through advanced illness: development of a core outcome set (COS) (1 September, 2016) Free

  Luke Cowie, Annmarie Nelson, Fiona Morgan, Anthony Byrne, Sara Pickett, Stephanie Sivell, Jim Fitzgibbon, Emily Harrop
• 16: What support do people with cirrhosis need from liver healthcare professionals in a liver transplant centre? (1 September, 2016) Free

  Sarah Davis, Joseph Low, Lynda Greenslade, Aileen Marshall, Doug Thorburn, Louise Jones
• 17: UK consensus project on quality in palliative day services: developing a quality indicator set using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method (1 September, 2016) Free

  Martin Dempster, Noleen McCorry, Sean O’Connor, Kathy Armour, Joanna Coast, Joachim Cohen, Michael Donnelly, Anne Finucane, Joan Fyvie, Louise Jones, George Kernohan, Kathleen Leemans, David Oxenham, Paul Perkins
• 18: The chemical compatibility and stability of drug combinations administered by continuous subcutaneous infusions used in end of life care (1 September, 2016) Free

  Andrew Dickman, Ellen Roberts, Phil Weir, Stephen Mason, John Ellershaw
• 19: Facilitating successful implementation of the carer support needs assessment tool (CSNAT) intervention within palliative care (1 September, 2016) Free

  Janet Diffin, Gail Ewing, Gunn Grande
• 20: The influence of organisational context and practitioner attitudes on implementation of the carer support needs assessment tool (CSNAT) intervention (1 September, 2016) Free

  Janet Diffin, Gail Ewing, Gunn Grande
• 21: Enabling successful hospital discharge to home at end of life: can a carer support needs assessment tool (CSNAT) help improve support for family carers? (1 September, 2016) Free

  Gail Ewing, Lynn Austin, Debra Gibson, Gunn Grande
• 22: Very old people dying – what would relatives like to have seen managed differently? (1 September, 2016) Free

  Jane Fleming, Robert Evans, Fiona Scheibl, Jackie Buck, Stephen Barclay, Morag Farquhar, Carol Brayne, Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study collaboration
• 23: End of life care for people with alcohol and other drug problems: an exploratory study (1 September, 2016) Free

  Galvani, Josie Tetley, Carol Haigh, Lucy Webb, Gemma Yarwood, Jo Ashby, Witham, Marian Peacock, Samantha Wright, Lorna Templeton, Fiona Duncan
• 24: Palliative care evidence review service (PaCERS): a rapid systematic approach to identifying high quality evidence on palliative care (1 September, 2016) Free

  Peter Gee, Amanda Woodward, Annmarie Nelson, Mala Mann, Anthony Byrne
• 25: Supporting people bereaved through advanced illness: a systematic review of the evidence (1 September, 2016) Free

  Emily J Harrop, Luke Cowey, Fiona Morgan, Anthony Byrne, Stephanie Sivell, Jim Fitzgibbon, Sara Pickett, Annmarie Nelson
• 26: The bereavement experiences and support needs of family carers: a supplementary qualitative analysis of free text data from the peolcpsp research priority setting exercise (1 September, 2016) Free

  Emily J Harrop, Anthony Byrne, Fiona Morgan, Annmarie Nelson
• 27: Can high fidelity simulation be used to teach communication skills regarding death and dying? A qualitative study (1 September, 2016) Free

  Amy Hawkins
• 28: “I’ll be in a safe place”: a qualitative study of the decisions taken by people with advanced cancer to seek emergency department care (1 September, 2016) Free

  Lesley A Henson, Irene J Higginson, Barbara A Daveson, Clare Ellis-Smith, Jonathan Koffman, Myfanwy Morgan, Wei Gao, on behalf of BuildCARE
• 29: Why do patients with haematological malignancies die in hospital? Qualitative findings from a UK study (1 September, 2016) Free

  Dorothy McCaughan, Eve Roman, Alex Smith, Debra Howell
• 30: Factors associated with hospital death in patients with haematological malignancies: findings from a UK population-based study (1 September, 2016) Free

  Andrew Turner, Eve Roman, Alex Smith, Debra Howell
• 31: How can we facilitate access to palliative care for homeless people? A systematic review of qualitative research (1 September, 2016) Free

  Briony F Hudson, Kate Flemming, Caroline Shulman, Bridget Candy
• 32: Ethnicity affects the experience of family caregivers of people living with severe MS: findings from a cross sectional survey (1 September, 2016) Free

  Diana Jackson, Cassie Goddard, Wei Gao, Irene Higginson, Eli Silber
• 33: Which measures assessing quality of death and dying and satisfaction with care at the very end of life have been psychometrically validated? A systematic review (1 September, 2016) Free

  Nuriye Kupeli, Bridget Candy, Bella Vivat, Jane Harrington, Sarah Davis, Elizabeth L Sampson, Anna Gola, Rebecca Lodwick, Paddy Stone
• 34: Systematic review of prescribing patterns of analgesic medications for older people living in care homes over time (1 September, 2016) Free

  Francesca La Frenais, Rachel Bedder, Patrick Stone, Elizabeth L Sampson
• 35: Poised for take-off – research activities within a hospice collaborative (1 September, 2016) Free

  Joanne Leung
• 36: Striving to become research active hospices: the story in one region through roles and collaboration (1 September, 2016) Free

  Joanne Leung, Charlotte Brigden
• 37: Evaluation of the effectiveness of music therapy in improving the quality of life of palliative care patients: a randomised controlled pilot and feasibility study (1 September, 2016) Free

  Tracey McConnell, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Joan Regan, Miriam McKeown, Jenny Kirkwood, Naomi Hughes, Mike Clarke, Janet Leitch, Kerry Mcgrillen, Sam Porter
• 38: Family’s voice helping relatives or friends in the last days of life (1 September, 2016) Free

  Mel McEvoy, John Blenkinsopp, Eileen Scott
• 39: Priority setting for end-of-life care (1 September, 2016) Free

  Michael Spence, Rebecca Spencer, Janet Diffin, Peter Mellor, Gunn Grande
• 40: Breathe better: an evaluation of a hospice group to support people with end-stage chronic obstructive disease (COPD) (1 September, 2016) Free

  Laura Middleton-Green, George Lawson, Clare Rayment
• 41: Modifiable barriers to meeting care and support needs of patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their informal carers (1 September, 2016) Free

  Caroline Moore, Gail Ewing, Carole Gardener, Patrick White, Peter Burge, Ravi Mahadeva, Sophie Howson, Sara Booth, Tom Ling, Morag Farquhar, on behalf of the Living with Breathlessness study team
• 42: A qualitative exploration of patient and carer perspectives on pancreatic exocrine insufficiency due to pancreatic cancer (1 September, 2016) Free

  Wendy Muircroft, Helen Gooden, Aileen Collier, Sharon Carey, Merryn Gott, David Currow
• 43: ‘Go home with your family and a lot of kit, and we’ll leave you to it’: perceptions of out of hours care by the PeolcPSP respondents (1 September, 2016) Free

  Annmarie Nelson, Jordan Van Godwin, Stephanie Sivell, Anthony Byrne
• 44: How should compassion be conceived and enacted in end of life care? A patient perspective (1 September, 2016) Free

  Hannah Palfrey, Kathy Armour, Rachel Grubb, Jonathan Ives
• 45: Symptom prevalence of patients with end-stage liver disease: a systematic review (1 September, 2016) Free

  Jen-Kuei Peng, Nilay Hepgul, Irene J Higginson, Wei Gao
• 46: Advance care planning in dementia: ‘living well’ with an uncertain future (1 September, 2016) Free

  Tony Ryan, Jane McKeown
• 47: Challenges in resource planning as a barrier to patients achieving death at home (1 September, 2016) Free

  Meelad Sayma, Doa’a Kerwat, Shiraz Jamshaid, Dina Saleh, Aaniya Ahmed, Folashade Oyewole, Abdul Samad Wahid
• 48: Involving prisoners in action research to improve palliative care: findings from the ‘both sides of the fence’ study (1 September, 2016) Free

  Mary Turner, Marian Peacock, Sandra Varey, Katherine Froggatt, Sheila Payne, Bob Gibson, Gill Scott, Andrew Fletcher
• 49: Unpublished studies in a palliative care systematic review: a case study (1 September, 2016) Free

  Victoria Vickerstaff, Louise Jones, Philip Larkin, Paddy Stone, Bridget Candy
• 50: Development of a psychoeducational workshop for patients with cancer cachexia and their carers (1 September, 2016) Free

  Sally Wheelwright, Jane B Hopkinson, Anne-Sophie Darlington, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Colin D Johnson
• 51: How accurate are palliative care doctors at recognising dying? (1 September, 2016) Free

  Nicola White, Adam Harris, Fiona Reid, Priscilla Harries, Ollie Minton, Catherine McGowan, Philip Lodge, Adrian Tookman, Patrick Stone

E-poster presentations

• 53: Contact with out of hours services by palliative care patients in a rural care setting (1 September, 2016)

  Sarah Bowers, Eileen Hillis, Bill Shennan, Ruth Isherwood
• 53: Supporting family caregivers in the transition between hospital and their relative’s preferred place for end of life care (1 September, 2016)

  Natasha Campling, Sue Duke, Pam Firth, Susi Lund, Neil Lunt, Carl May, Alison Richardson
• 54: Lothian care assistant development programme – an education initiative (1 September, 2016)

  L Cassidy
• 55: Responding 24/7: an evaluation of urgent admission requests to the hospice (1 September, 2016)

  Esther Downham, Emma Carduff, Graham Whyte
• 56: Electronic key information summaries can highlight patients’ wishes out of hours (1 September, 2016)

  Anne Finucane, Julia Tapsfield, Charlie Hall, Carey Lunan, Hazel McCutheon, Peter McLoughlin, Joel Rhee
• 57: Evaluate the improved value that NHS 111 can provide to palliative care patients and their families by utilising specialist palliative care nurses within urgent and emergency care (1 September, 2016)

  Alison Bradley, Michela Littlewood-Prince, Usha Kaushal, Kathryn Mitchell, Claire Leyland, Judith Wanstall, Nicholas Cooper
• 58: The unique role of the nurse preceptor in community palliative care (1 September, 2016)

  MJ Legg, L Graham, A McAleer, L McCann, M Dempster
• 59: Sexual healing: is there something we are missing? (1 September, 2016)

  Laura Middleton-Green, Andrea Ward
• 60: Are subcutaneous palliative medicines available and accessible: an out of hours (OOH) audit in sheffield (1 September, 2016)

  Elizabeth Miller, Julie D Morgan, Alison Blenkinsopp, Christina Wong
• 61: Out of hours palliative care support across boundaries: a review of the 24 hour advice line for south east wales from marie curie hospice cardiff and the vale (1 September, 2016)

  Hannah Osborn, Jo Hayes
• 62: Are patients who are rejected for a liver transplantation referred to palliative care? (1 September, 2016)

  Molly Stewart, John Speakman