Masterclass in Palliative Care 2026

  • 23 January, 2026 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • In-person
  • Patient care
  • EARLY BIRD PRICE! 10% OFF until 12th December 2025
Book onto course

Interested in developing your knowledge and skills? This course is ideal for experienced doctors and nurses who are practising in palliative care and end of life care.

Following excellent feedback in 2025, Oxford Centre for Education and Research in Palliative Care are collaborating with Dorothy House Hospice for the third year to bring you this Masterclass in 2026. Book now for an early bird price of £175.

Topics will be selected from the Oxford Advanced Course in Pain and Symptom Management taking place in Summer 2025. Updates and new publications in the field are added to the teaching materials. A case-based teaching approach is used face-to-face in the beautiful setting of Dorothy House Hospice.

Chaired by Dr Emma Frampton & Dr Mary Miller

Who should attend?

The course is ideal for any Medical, Nursing or Allied Health Care Professional who care and support people who are palliative or towards the end of their life.

Course Aims
  • Knowledge to inform your practice
  • Resources from which to continue learning and adapt that learning in practice
  • A means of ensuring your practice compares with ‘good practice’, benchmarking against your peers
  • Stimulation, time for thinking and reflection
Course details

09:00 Coffee and registration

09:15 Welcome and Introduction

09:25 Nausea and vomiting – Dr Mary Miller

Reviewing our practice and the current evidence base and considering new medications to add to our repertoire. Updating our knowledge about chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting.

10:10 Nonpharmacological management of breathlessness – Dr Mary Miller

What is the evidence base for non-drug management? How does this sit alongside drug management?

10:40 Coffee Break

11:10 Oral health – Dr Mary Miller

Oral hygiene for dying patients, how can we improve? Updating on the management of oral candidiasis.

11:45 Vitamin deficiencies in our patients – Dr Mary Miller

Is it important in dying patients? Latest on B12 deficiency from the palliative care formulary

12:15 Lunch

13:15 The Dorothy House Lecture 2026

14:15 Break

14:30 Problematic opioid use – Dr Mary Miller

Can we identify our patients who misuse opioids. Learning from Canada and North America.

15:00  Opioid induced neurotoxicity – Dr Mary Miller

What is opioid induced neurotoxicity? Is it common in palliative care? Do we need to change our practice?

15:30 Final remarks and feedback

15:45 Close of day