Education and Training

Multi-Faith Resource for Healthcare Staff.  

This resource is designed to assist NHS staff and volunteers to address some of the spiritual and religious needs of people in their care.

NHS Education for Scotland – Support Around Death

This NHS Education for Scotland website aims to support health and social care staff who are working with patients, carers and families before, at, and after death. It provides key information on the clinical, legislative, and practical issues involved.

CEN & PELiCaN Bereavement and Loss Event – 3rd May 2023
Video nameDescription
PELiCaN & CEN – Update on the Palliative Care Strategy For Scotland – Dr Annabel HowellDr Howell will provide an update on the Scottish Government work on updating the Scottish Palliative Care Strategy and open the morning session of the event.
PELiCaN & CEN – Asking ‘What matters to You’ Dr Jen RogersThis session explores the principles of asking, listening and doing what matters to those who use services across health and social care. What Matters to You’ conversations help healthcare teams understand what is most important to people when they are receiving care and treatment, leading to better care partnerships and improved patient experience.
PELiCaN & CEN – EC4H: Supporting communication skill and confidence in challenging scenariosDr Murdoch & Dr Gunning. This presentation will describe the EC4H training programme briefly outlining the background, approach to training and range of training courses. It will consider psychological theory underpinning the communication processes the training aims to support and share an example of training delivery.
PELiCaN & CEN Communicating End of Life Choices – Marisa McInnesThis presentation will cover a family’s experience over the years of communicating with professionals their end of life choices and putting plans in place for such times.
PELiCaN & CEN – A Peer Support approach to support Professional Grief – M McGale & P DonnellyThis presentation will be covering Professional Grief, peer support and how peer support can help, how it was set up, results and feedback.  There will be time for questions at the end
PELiCaN & CEN – Some reflections on walking alongside – Ken RussellThis presentation will draw from Ken’s experience of walking alongside people in various settings. These include parish ministry with the Church of Scotland, full time healthcare chaplaincy with NHS Forth Valley, and full time chaplaincy with the Scottish Prison Service at HMP Perth.
PELiCaN & CEN – A Parents Perspective of Anticipatory Grief Through Pregnancy and BeyondShaun Dowdall, Charity Director, SOFT UK Receiving a diagnosis of Trisomy 13 or Trisomy 18 can be devastating for parents, but it affects us all in such different ways. Due to the spectrum of outcomes that are associated with Edwards and Patau’s, grief doesn’t begin with the physical loss, it begins so much sooner than many anticipate. In this presentation, families will talk about their lived experience of anticipatory grief through pregnancy and beyond.
PELiCaN & CEN – The impact of grief and loss on siblings – Clare KassaI am intending to talk a little about the charity, what being a sibling means, grief and loss in young siblings, bereavement in adult siblings and touch on a case study around generational grief.
PELiCaN & CEN – The impact of grief and loss on grandparents

Morag Mackintosh Gran to Emma (known as Granny Mac)

Carole Lind (bereaved Gran to Billy)
This presentation will cover explore life with a grandchild with a life limiting condition & and the impact this has on family life.  There will also be discussion around the pain grandparents feel for their child who is grieving as well as their grief as grandparents.
PELiCaN & CEN – Life is an emotional rollercoaster – A Hollern and C PoolThis session will explore what it feels like to be on that emotional roller coaster when your child is end of life then turns a corner, sometimes multiple times.  Anne & Chanel describe what was important to them at that time
PELiCaN / CEN – Where are we now? – C Kidson & U MacFadyenDr Chris Kidson will give an overview of the work PELiCaN has undertaken since launch in 2019 and the plans in place for going forwards. Dr Una MacFadyen will give an overview of recent work undertaken by CEN and plans for the future.