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Permission has been granted by the authors for the following oral presentations from both plenary and parallel sessions to be shared on this site and downloaded.

PLEASE NOTE: These are available only in PDF format. Should you use information from any of these presentations, attribution to the author/s must be made.

Oral Presentations

Ambler J – Burnout in Palliative Care Practitioners

Arendse J – Palliative Care Integration Policy Lessons in the Cape Metro District of the Western Cape

Bell T – How to Eat an Elephant – Finding Solutions to Address the Growing Need for Children’s Palliative Care in South Africa

Buchner A – Use of palliative chemotherapy in SA -Experience in a single unit

Carpenter S – Being part of the solution – Providing palliative care to the homeless and destitute

Daniels A -Bridging Gaps. Advancing Childrens Palliative Care Through Webinars

Das E – Magnify Tool – A Hands on demonstration

de Wet R – Propellers of organisational sustainability in nonprofit hospices in South Africa

Doherty M – Holding Governments to Account to Implement WHA Resolution on Strengthening of Palliative Care

du Plessis R- Minding the Gap. Tales of an Occupational Therapist and her role in a Hospice IDT

Gage C – Integrating EMS and Palliative Care

Glass M – Palliative Care Support Interventions for Parents Bereaved by Still-Birth

Harned E – More than Just the Pills

Howes CG – Queering Palliative Care Validation of a Thematic Framework for Understanding Queer-Affirming Palliative Care Education

Howes CG and Matthews B – Puzzle Model

Jansen van Rensburg M – The art therapist’s position in the palliative care system

Jenkins L – Optimizing home-based care of patients with palliative care needs in a rural subdistrict in South Africa

Kaplan B – The Evolution of Mindfulness Practice in Working with the Dying

Kumar S – Compassionate Communities – Lessons from Kerala

Lubbe H – Experience of primary caregivers of patients receiving end-of-life hospice care.

Mannix K – Tender Conversations – Listening to Understand

Marston J – Palliative Care in Humanitarian Settings and Emergencies

Matrose B – Spiritual Care in Mother and Child Palliative care setting

Meinert L – Learning from Loss- How Lessons from Palliative Care are Helping Climate Change Actists

Mkhize N – Ubuntu A Principle for Informed Palliative Care

Munnings Hardman M -Reflections on 40 years of palliative care in rural SA

Oxford-Huggett W – Palliative care accreditation and standards

Penfold P- Incorporating palliative principles in acute paediatric perioperative care

Ratshikana M – Integrated Palliative Outcomes Scale (IPOS)

Rawlins T – Childrens Palliative Care Education in South Africa A Growing Movement

Scrooby C – How do we Mind the Gap Refections on the role of sould carers in a home a medical practice and a state hospital

Shibula N – A holistic bereavement care model for perinatal loss

Suckling B – Navigating the Digital World in PPC 

Tong F – The revised Bereavement Support Course Torr U – Holding the centre – Listening to the patient voice

Wiles J – Integrating PPC into health system KZN

Wishnia J – Putting the brakes on IPU Closures_Wishnia and Kistan

Poster Presentations

You are invited to view, read, and download a selection of the poster presentations that were presented at the conference. 

Abundant Life Palliative Care a Model Landscaping SA Palliative Care
Dr Clint Cupido

Cancer Burden and Quality of Life among female patients living with HIV accessing palliative care at the Wits Centre for Palliative Care, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa
Phillip Makume, Dr Mpho Ratshikana

Causes for Palliative Care Readmissions to Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
Andrea Mendelsohn

Chronic conditions, Multimorbidity and Associations with the Semographic Profile in Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Mpho Ratshikana, Sonti Pilusa

Use of Palliative Chemotherapy in South Africa: National Survey of Paediatric Oncologists
Dr Ané Buchner