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This conference will focus on implementing the November 2022 NICE guideline & recommendations for improving access to advocacy services. Issues facing staff and patients such as supporting people who lack capacity, supporting patients through the process, and providing training tailored for specific practitioners, will all be covered by this robust body of professionals who resolve these challenges on a regular basis.
Every individual should be provided with ongoing opportunities to participate in decisions that affect them. Patients should be supported to make informed decisions by the provision of clear advice on options from their clinicians.
Good advocacy can help people transform their lives, and ensure that people are truly heard and their rights are respected. The implementation of NICE’s evidence-based guidance would make a major contribution to this.
The conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve access to advocacy services
- Learn from outstanding practice in advocacy services
- Reflect on updates from advocacy services, NHS Trusts and legal practitioners
- Update your knowledge on national developments and the New NICE Advocacy Guideline
- Improve the way we work with advocacy services and raise awareness of what services are available
- Develop your skills in patient involvement and engagement
- Understand how you can improve training for staff working with advocacy services
- Identify key strategies for raising awareness of what advocacy services are available to patients including self-advocacy
- Learn from case studies in mental health, older people and complaints advocacy
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 hours training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
