We have had 3 years of ‘bridges’ as part of the logo for the Palliative Care Congress in the UK. ‘Bridges’ seemed to represent palliative care making connections between people, between teams, between settings and also bridging gaps.
The Ironbridge theme for the Telford conference that was due in 2020 but had to be postponed owing to the pandemic – one specialty three settings – reflecting the diversity of palliative care delivery at the time, but with a common theme. The theme was then redeveloped for the 2021 virtual conference in Edinburgh reflecting the Edinburgh bridges and Ironbridge returned for the F2F conference in Telford in 2022 – this time with the ‘recovering, rebounding, reinventing’ strap line – we had all lived through so much change during the pandemic.
Thinking through the experience of delivering palliative care across all settings during the pandemic, the revised curriculum and delivery for specialist training, and innovations, QI and research yielding evidence based practice and new ways of doing things it also seemed sensible to be reminded of where all of this started… 1967 … and making dying an integral part of living. Yet we need to be canny – we need to look after each other – wherever we work, whichever team or teams we might be part of.
The phrase – ‘Growing together, sustaining each other’ – was sent in my direction. Trees, sustainability ( in all senses of the word) , gave rise to the logo for this PCC 2023.
It’s been a thought provoking and reflective project.
Sharing Palliative Care 