Medical & Pharmaceutical Network: Palliative care and ordinary dying

Our speaker is Dr Kathryn Mannix, a bestselling author and retired consultant in palliative care. She has worked in hospices, patients’ own homes and a large teaching hospital in the north of England.

She took early retirement in 2016 to work for better public understanding of dying; this has included radio work, newspaper articles and a book entitled With the End in Mind that became an international best seller, was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and was The Times ‘Thought’ Book of the Year.

Her second book, Listen, about tender communication, was published in September 2021. She will present one lecture in the morning and one in the afternoon, after which we will break into language groups to work together on terminology in a paper on the topic of palliative care (provided in advance, attendees will benefit from reading it and highlighting useful terms before the day).

Lunch and refreshments throughout the day included.