Advance Care Planning - A regional patient-centred learning event

This event will bring together clinicians from multiple and varied disciplines, who support patients and their families to make Advance Care Planning decisions. The programme includes patient stories, national and regional updates, and interactive workshops to improve Advanced Care Planning, information and support for people in our region. We also welcome attendance from the public with experience or interest in this area, such as patients or their family members.

The event is hosted by Oxford AHSN Patient Safety Collaborative Deterioration and Sepsis Network.

Our speakers include:

Andrew Brent

Andrew Brent is an Infectious Diseases and General Medicine Physician, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As Regional Lead for the Oxford AHSN Patient Safety Collaborative’s Sepsis and Deterioration Group, Andrew is helping champion and support Advanced Care Planning to ensure that the care that we provide is appropriate for each patient.

Professor Bee Wee

Prof Bee Wee CBE is National Clinical Director for End of Life Care at NHS England. In this role, she provides strategic leadership for palliative and end of life care across England. She co-chairs the Ambitions Partnership for Palliative and End of Life Care which has 34 partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector. She has recently led the publication of the Universal Principles for Advance Care Planning in conjunction with 27 other national organisations in response to the Care Quality Commission’s recommendation for a consistent national approach to advance care planning. Locally, she is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals Trust and Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford University.

Dr Ed Capo-Bianco MBChB, BSc, DCH, MRCGP (2010)

Ed Capo-Bianco is a GP at Goring and Woodcote Medical Practice and Clinical Lead at OCCG (ICS in Oxfordshire) for Urgent Care, Palliative and End of Life Care and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Ed has worked as a GP in South Oxfordshire for the last 12 years. He used to be part of the GP weekend cover to Sue Ryder Hospice in Nettlebed for a number of years until 2017. Ed has been a clinical director in OCCG since 2017 and has led on Palliative and End of Life Care for the last 18 months.

Dr Jane Henderson, MB BS, MRCP

Jane qualified from the Royal Free and University College Hospitals medical school in 2001. She has been a palliative medicine consultant since 2016, initially as a locum consultant in Oxford and more recently as a substantive consultant at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Jane is Trust lead for end of life care and is interested in improving advance care planning and escalation decisions and documentation.

Jess Taylor

Jess Taylor is currently working on the EARLY project in Oxfordshire. Her professional background is as an Occupational Therapist working across acute and community services. She is currently working on the EARLY project at Sobell House Hospice, providing training to senior Nurses and AHPs in Advance care Planning and CPR decision making.

Jon Vollam

Jon Vollam is a patient safety senior programme manager at the Oxford Academic Health Science Network, we he supports deterioration and system safety workstreams. A critical care nurse by background, Jon has worked within the NHS and Royal Air Force Medical Services. His professional interests include patient safety, quality improvement and human factors.

Petronelle Eastwick-Field

Petronelle Eastwick-Field is a Resuscitation Officer and is the RN. Lead for the ReSPECT process, which was adopted in 2018, at the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She established a ReSPECT Collaborative Group which has representation from much of the South East/Central England. She is keen to promote confidence and competence with DNACPR and the ReSPECT process in clinical practice.

Petronelle is an Accredited Educator for Simulation in Healthcare, an instructor in all Resuscitation Council courses and has experience in simulation in medical emergencies in both acute and primary care. She also facilitates debriefs within the Trust for staff involved in traumatic clinical events. She has worked in the RBH NHSFT since 1990.

Robyn Wozny

Robyn Wozny is Project Lead working on the EARLY project in Oxfordshire. Her professional background is as an Occupational Therapist working across a variety of clinical and managerial settings including managing patient flow through community hospitals in Oxfordshire. Robyn is currently leading the EARLY project at Sobell House Hospice, providing training to senior Nurses and AHPs in Advance Care Planning and CPR decision making.

Tim Harrison MBBS MSc LLM, FRCP

Tim Harrison has been Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust since 2005 aside from a brief spell as Consultant in Jersey, Channel Islands. Tim is also Clinical Governance Lead for Sobell House and holds a Master of Laws degree from Cardiff University looking at Legal Aspects of the Doctrine of Double Effect.

Zoe Woods

Zoe Woods is the Palliative and End of life Programme Lead for the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care System, identifying and developing workstreams to deliver on local and national ambitions and priorities for end of life. Zoe, started on the NHS Graduate Scheme as a health informatics trainee and has worked across multiple organisations in Transformation and Strategy. Zoe’s professional interests include business development, quality improvement and sustainability.