Oral Presentations for Download
Several of the plenary and parallel speakers from the 2025 conference have kindly given permission to the conference organisers to share their PowerPoint presentations in PDF format. You are invited to view, read, and download these but are asked to correctly attribute the authors for any information taken from these and used for your own purposes.
A Community Based Paediatric Palliative Care Practice Model to Facilitate Children’s Participation in the Northwest Province
Penelope Mathe
A Hands-On Demonstration of a Human-Centred Designed Tool for Enhancing Quality in Children’s Palliative Care Using Service Data Mrs Erin Das
Erin Das
A Revolutionary Ethical Model for Palliative Care in Africa
Dr Michelle Meiring
Bridging Borders: African Health Professionals involvement in a Telementoring Program – Palliative Care ECHO
Dr Helen Haydon
Bridging Gaps: Advancing Children’s Palliative Care Through Webinars
Alex Daniels
Communication in Palliative Care: Listening to Understand
Dr Kathryn Mannix
Envisioning the Future for Palliative Care Sr Joan Marston
Joan Marston
Establishing a Holistic Bereavement Care Model for Perinatal Loss
Nonkululeko Shibula
Evaluation of the Acceptability and Validity of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide amongst Healthcare Professionals in an Oncology Setting in South Africa: Final Results
Dr Henriette Burger
Facilitating the Integration of Emergency Medical Services and Palliative Care in South Africa: A Nominal Group Technique
Caleb Gage
Family Dynamics in Palliative Care: Blessings and Challenges
Dr Welly den Hollander
Healing in the Sand: The Application of Jungian Sandplay Therapy in Paediatric Palliative Care
Mrs Louise Henderson
Holding Governments to Account to Implement WHA Resolution 67.19 on Strengthening of Palliative Care
Dr Megan Doherty
Holding the Centre | Listening to the Patient Voice
Ursula Torr & Kirsten de Villiers
How did we “mind the gap”? Reflections on the role of Soul Carers in a home, a medical practice, and a state hospital
Carol Scrooby
How to Eat an Elephant: Finding Solutions to Address the Growing Need for Children’s Palliative Care in SA
Mrs Tarryn Bell
Integrated Palliative Outcomes Scale (IPOS): A review of treatment outcomes among Cancer patients at the Wits Centre for Palliative Care Chris Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Gauteng, South Africa
Dr Mpho Ratshikana
Integrating Paediatric Palliative Care into the existing healthcare system in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) – experiences from regional hospital in Northern KZN
Dr Jodi Wiles
Integrating Palliative Principles into Paediatric Acute Perioperative and PICU Care
Dr Phillipa Penfold
Knowledge and perceptions of doctors in a tertiary level hospital in KwaZulu-Natal towards palliative care
Junaid Mohamed Vahed
Lambano Sanctuary – 24 years later, Every Child’s Life Matters
Ms Tshepiso Makume
Learning From Loss: How Lessons from Palliative Care are Helping Climate Change Activists
Leigh Meinert
Lessons Learnt Building a Primary Health Care Palliative Care Programme in the Cape Metro
Dr Jennie Morgan
Minding the Gap: Tales of an Occupational Therapist and her role in a Hospice MDT
Rolyn Du Plessis
More than Just the Pills: How Palliative Care Services are Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in Adolescents Living with HIV
Ethan Harned
Navigating the Digital World: The Impact of Social Media on Families in PPC (Positive and Negative)
Bonita Suckling
Optimizing home-based care of patients with palliative care needs in a rural subdistrict in South Africa
Prof Louis Jenkins
Optimizing Palliative Care Enrolments for Oncology Patients: A Data-Driven Approach
S Da Silva
Overcoming Burnout
Dr Julia Ambler
Palliative Care in Emergency & Humanitarian Situations
Joan Marston
Palliative Care Integration: Policy Lessons in the Cape Metro District of the Western Cape
Dr Juanita Arendse
Palliative Care Support Interventions for Parents Bereaved by Still-Birth or Early Neonatal Death
Merlyn Glass
Patch Academy: The development of a global resource in children’s palliative care
Tracy Rawlins
Propellers of Organisational Sustainability in Hospices in South Africa
Robert de Wet
Putting the brakes on IPU closures: The case for specialised palliative care beds
Jodi Wishnia
Quality of Life Scores of Women Diagnosed with Cervical Cancer in the Zululand District, Kwa-Zulu-Natal
Siyabonga Dlamini
Quantifying AIB Savings Through a Clinical Twin Approach
J Duvenage
Queering Palliative Care: Validation of a Thematic Framework for Understanding Queer-Affirming Palliative Care Education
Dr Craig Geoff Howes
Reaching More Members Needing Palliative Care and Support: Experience with the Implementation of a Digital Companion
K Cardwell
Situational analyses of novel nurse-led palliative care implementation plan in routine health care services in the Western Cape
Dr Barbara Green Thompson
Spiritual Care in Mother and Child Palliative Care Settings
Bahle Matrose
Steet Medicine and Palliative Care
Dr Stephen Carpenter
The art therapist’s position in the palliative care system
Madri Jansen van Rensburg
The Evolution of Mindful Practice in Working with the Dying
Bonnie Kaplan
The Experience of Primary Caregivers of Patients Receiving End of Life Hospice Care
Hanneke Lubbe
The Puzzle Model: Integration of Telehealth to Expand Access to Palliative Care
Dr Barbara Matthews & Dr Craig Geoff Howes
The Revised Bereavement Support Course – Contemplating its Relevance and Efficacy for Supporting Loss and Grief in South African Communities
Fran Tong
The Revolution in Death Literacy
Dr Libby Sallnow
The Safri Concept and African Framework for End-of-Life Care
Dr Christian Ntizimira
Training palliative care: opportunities for collaborative practice
Prof Bernhard Gaede
Ubuntu as a Principle for Informed Palliative Care
Nokulinda Mkhize
Understanding Parental Anger in PPC: Why it’s not personal
Bonita Suckling
Use of palliative chemotherapy in South Africa: Experience in a single unit
Dr Ane Buchner
Value-Based Care: A Fractal-Based Framework
Dr Nomalugelo Nyathi
What is the Role of a Pediatric End-of-Life Doula in Enhancing Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Care
Yasmeen Fatimah Smith