Programme
Please see below for our conference programme.
Sunday 27 September 2015 | ||||
14h00 onwards | Registration | |||
18h00 | Mayoral welcome | |||
Monday 28 September 2015 | ||||
07.00 – 08.30 | Registration | |||
08.30 – 10.30 | Plenary sessions | Welcome | ||
Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, MEC KZN: Access to palliative care in KZN | ||||
Bulelani Kuwane, Aurum Institute: The role of nurses in promoting access to palliative care | ||||
Dr Emmanuel Luyirika, APCA: The WHA Palliative Care Resolution helping hidden patients access palliative care | ||||
10.30 – 11.00 | TEA | |||
| TRACK 1: Policy, standards and quality | TRACK 2: Education & training | TRACK 3: Palliative care services | TRACK 4: Holistic care |
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11.00 – 11.20 | The NDoH draft Ward Based Primary Health Care Outreach Team (WBPHCOT) Policy Frame: Implications for CBOs Josef Lazarus | Curriculum review of the Short Course in Palliative Nursing – why curriculum review is important for short courses Jenny Stidworthy | Building a Brand in Order to Raise Awareness and Funding Jenny Handley | Comprehensive pain management Romy Parker |
11.25 – 11.45 | Access to essential Palliative Care medicine Nirupa Misara | e-learning Palliative Care pilot project Fiona Shraga | ehospice: using a global digital news platform to amplify hidden voices Sue Boucher | PainSA Guide to the Treatment of Cancer Pain in South Africa: 2015 Charmaine Blanchard |
11.50 – 12.10 | Towards the development of South Africa PC Policy: Comparative analysis and literature review on selected International and regional Comprehensive Care and Support – Palliative Care Musa Manganye | A Needs assessment for palliative care training in undergraduate students at the University of Stellenbosch AE Fourie | Hospice In-Patient Units – Essential, Nice-To-Have or Financial Liability? Mike Brown | Pain Management in palliative care: Botswana’s perspective Babe Eunice Gaolebale |
12.15 – 12.35 | Development of a proposed package of services for comprehensive care and support palliative care in South Africa Refilwe Sello | Post Graduate Palliative Medicine Education at the University of Cape Town Rene Krause | Hospice 2020 Joy Ruwodo | Lived Experience of a Palliative Patient on Morphine Analgesia: A Case Study Fiona Shraga |
12.40 – 13.00 | Starting with the framework: Development of a Provincial Comprehensive Care and Support – Palliative Care (CCS-PC) Strategy and Guidelines in KwaZulu-Natal Province Duvai Mukuvisi | Overcoming the barriers to publish success stories Nelia Drenth | HospiceWits Retail Shops – sharing of best practices regarding charity shops and retail concepts Maimoona Omuabor | IALCH Pain Clinic: Something for the Pain Yashana Hookamchand |
13.00 – 13.45 | LUNCH | |||
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13.45 – 15.00 | The NDoH draft Ward Based Primary Health Care Outreach Team (WBPHCOT) Policy Frame: Implications for CBOs Coordinator: Jo Lazarus | Children as Hidden Patients Coordinators: Julia | Raising awareness – social media Coordinators: Eric | Opioid requirements in SA Coordinator: Jim Cleary |
15.00 – 15.30 | TEA | |||
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15.30 – 17.00 | CONTINUATION: The NDoH draft Ward Based Primary Health Care Outreach Team (WBPHCOT) Policy Frame: Implications for CBOs Coordinator: Jo Lazarus | Hidden lives, hidden patients: Providing Care for Older People. Where do they go to? How can we get them back? Coordinators: Jenny | Disabilities Coordinator: Petra Burger | Pain Management using the PainSA Guide to the Treatment of Cancer Pain in South Africa: 2015 Coordinator: Charmaine Blanchard |
17.30 | HPCA AGM – Venue: Great Ilanga | |||
| FREE EVENING | |||
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Tuesday 29 September 2015 | ||||
08.30-10.00 | Plenary sessions | Mrs Jeannette Hunter, DoH: Improving access to palliative care in South Africa | ||
Ms Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, DSD: Persons with Disabilities and their Families – Improving quality of life through equitable access to Palliative Care | ||||
Ms Maria Mabena, DCS: Access to Palliative Care in Correctional Facilities: South Africa | ||||
10.00 – 10.30 | TEA | |||
| TRACK 1: Policy, standards and quality | TRACK 2: Education & training | TRACK 3: Palliative care services | TRACK 4: Holistic care |
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10.30 – 10.50 | Social Ecological Model: A method to explore solutions to Lost to Follow up (LTFU) by integrating Comprehensive Care and Support-Palliative Care (CCS-PC) services for PLHIV and other debilitating conditions in Mpumalanga Elana Olivier | Psychosocial Interaction Model and Barriers to Participation in Adult Learning: A case of community caregiver training in Gauteng Nkosazana Ngidi | Self-assessment tool and support towards accreditation Esme Pudule | The Care Plan – from confusion to clarity, a reflection Corinne Gourley |
10.55 – 11.15 | Systems Strengthening Approach for Social Service Practitioners using the Health Care Referral Model for cascading the 90-90-90 for referral and retention in care Collaboration between PACT and CaSIPO | Undergraduate palliative care programme at the University of Cape Town Linda Ganca | Strengthen home based care of cerebral palsied children Neil McKerrow | Implementing HCT at Sungardens Hospice: A strategy for linking prevention and care to strengthening health systems Juanita Kruger |
11.20 – 11.40 | Optimizing Health System Strengthening approach for Adherence strategy mini roll out in the selected sites of South Africa Refilwe Sello | Post Graduate Diploma in Palliative Medicine from the Students’ Perspective Thiloshini Govender | But isn’t there more … Tracey Brand and | Unveiling children’s true potential (Creative interventions in the care of two children) Alex Daniels |
11.45 – 12.05 | Community-based HIV adherence support strategies improve patient health outcomes Yolandi Valentyn | Compassion, Care, and Support: Educating Student Social Workers to be Leaders in Palliative Care Rachel J. Freeman | Care & treatment of PLHIV presenting with advanced disease – how are our hospitals coping? Henry Sunpath | Euthanasia- the challenge for PC Liz Gwyther |
12.10 – 12.30 | Initiating Adherence Clubs to support retention in care in the district of Lejweleputswa, Free State Millie Hugo | Building Competencies of all Health Care Workers in Palliative Care Nkosazana Ngidi | Persons with Disabilities….. Are their unique emotional needs being recognised within Palliative Care services? Petra Burger | Attentive Amelioration: The Power of Mindful Presence in Patient Centered Care Susan Mc Garvie |
12.35 – 12.55 | Palliative Care part of 90/90/90 Sindi Mthethwa | Language specialist versus field specialist: the translation of Traditional Healers Manual (Hospice) Rosalia Moroesi Nakin | Little People, Big Needs Dianne Waddington | Dignity conserving care Raksha Balbadhur |
13.00 – 13.45 | LUNCH | |||
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13.45 – 15.00 | CaSIPO side event Coordinator: Andre Wagner | Consultative workshop on the draft Home Based Care (HBC) worker Occupational Profile and Qualifications Coordinator: Jo Lazarus | Developing resources for hospices Coordinator: Liz | The eye of the storm: mindful practice as an approach to holistic person centred wellness Coordinator: Susan |
15.00 – 15.30 | TEA | |||
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15.30 – 17.00 |
| CONTINUATION: Consultative workshop on the draft Home Based Care (HBC) worker Occupational Profile and Qualifications Coordinator: Jo Lazarus | HPCA Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator: Prags Naicker
| Values in Healthcare – An Experiential Approach Coordinator: Raksha Balbadhur |
19.30 | Gala dinner at Olive Convention Centre | |||
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Wednesday 30 September 2015 | ||||
08.30-10.00 | Plenary sessions | Dr Jim Cleary, PPSG: Global efforts to improve access to pain medication | ||
Mrs Joan Marston, ICPCN: Making the Invisible Visible: Children as Hidden Patients | ||||
Dr Liz Gwyther, HPCA & WHPCA: WHO and WHPCA Collaboration | ||||
10.00 – 10.30 | TEA | |||
| TRACK 1: Policy, standards and quality | TRACK 2: Care for family carers | TRACK 3: Palliative care services | Track 4 Holistic Care |
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10.30 – 10.50 | The role of the HPCA in improving quality of services within Western Cape Department of Health funded hospices, through the use of Global Funding Juanita Arendse | Providing Care… and Caring? The price of ignoring patients and families information needs Clare Wylie | Evaluation of the Palliative care program at Groote Schuur Hospital from March 2014 to March 2015 Rene Krause and Jenny Arendse | Disability and Sexuality…. The misconceptions Petra Burger |
10.55 – 11.15 | Road map to development of a Comprehensive care and support – palliative care policy for South Africa Musa Manganye | Siblings: Silent Sufferers of a life-limiting illness Annanda Bothma | Is it the end of the road, or is it the beginning of the end; Reflections of a Road less travelled Marwala Pule | Communication skills and needs of doctors when conveying a poor prognosis to patients and their families: a qualitative study from South Africa Linda Ganca |
11.20 – 11.40 | TB and Palliative Care Thiloshini Govender | The caregiver of the person with a palliative illness… The “hidden” patient… Petra Burger | Longitudinal patient-reported outcomes and quality improvement in a hospital-based palliative care service Richard Harding | Building the evidence Cornelia Drenth and Alida Herbst |
11.45 – 12.05 | The incidence of TB infection amongst staff working in hospices Notende Mgudlwa | Hidden Lives, Hidden Families: A review of the current care and support provided to primary caregivers. What will we find that we have lost? Francesca Tong | Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion: with law and social work representatives Nicola GunnClark and Desia Colgan | Mothers’ Concerns about HIV /AIDS Infected Children: Report of the Pediatric Ward Experience At the University Teaching Hospital of Bouake Kouie J Plo |
12.10 – 12.30 | Psychosocial patient support as essential element for management of active tuberculosis (TB) cases Thembisa Mchunu | Why don’t you ask what I think? The hidden voice of the parent with a sick child Julia Ambler and Tracey Brand | Additional Medical Expenses Tax Credit in the context of Palliative Care Koenraad Burger | Parents’ perceptions of their children participating in paediatric palliative care Penelope Mathe |
12.30 – 13.00 | Conference Closing | |||
13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch | |||
