21 November 6 – 8pm, online – FREE
Advance Care Planning what you need to know, and how to put it into practice.
With thanks to the Hawking Foundation for funding this event.
The ability to support patients with planning ahead is key to all health disciplines. Knowing when and how to best explore aspects of future care, which can often include difficult and very personal decisions, presents a clear challenge for professionals and their practice.
Effective advance care planning is the important theme of the prestigious Annual Stephen Hawking MND Lecture 2023 which is being organised by the MND Association and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).
The lecture will be led by Professor Bee Wee CBE. Bee was National Clinical Director for Palliative and End of Life Care, NHS England from 2013 – 2023.
Bee is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Sobell House and Katharine House Hospice, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Professor at University of Oxford, where she is also a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She is a Non Executive Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
This year’s event will be live-streamed on 21 November between 6pm and 8pm and will explore good advance care planning for people living with MND and its positive impact for the patient and for care. Professor Wee will give practical examples of how professionals can advance care planning in their own environment to ensure patient centred care and outline emergent practice. Although the lecture focusses on MND much of the content will be applicable to many other conditions in which advance care planning is key.
The lecture is suitable for all health and social care professionals and members of the public with an interest in MND. Book your free place.
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Speaker Biography
Professor Bee Wee CBE
Bee was National Clinical Director for Palliative and End of Life Care, NHS England from 2013 – 2023.
Bee is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Sobell House and Katharine House Hospice, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Professor at University of Oxford, where she is also a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She is a Non Executive Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Originally from Malaysia, Bee qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 1988, trained in general practice in Dublin, then moved into palliative medicine in Ireland, Hong Kong and the UK. She was Consultant/Senior Lecturer at Countess Mountbatten House, Southampton (1995-2003), where she became Deputy Director of Education, School of Medicine at the University. She was President of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (2010-13), National Clinical Lead for e-ELCA, a DH-commissioned e-learning programme for end of life care, now hosted by Health Education England, and Chair of the Topic Expert Group for the NICE Quality Standard for End of Life Care (2011). She enjoys cooking and allotment gardening for relaxation.
Bee is Honorary Professor at Sichuan University, China, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Science at Oxford Brookes University. She is Visiting Professor at Lewis-Manning Hospice and at Bournemouth University. As NCD, she led the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People and is co-chair of the National Partnership for Palliative and End of Life Care which was responsible for publishing the ‘Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: a national framework for local action’ in 2015. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list in 2020 for services to palliative and end of life care.
