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CSNAT conference 2019 a huge success!
Implementing the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) Approach: Views from research and practice Through popular request, we hosted our second fully booked ‘CSNAT’ conference on Friday 1st March 2019. This was an update our first conference we hosted in … Continue reading
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Online training: Launch day!
Launch of ‘The CSNAT Approach Training and Implementation Toolkit’ (Feb 2019) We are delighted to announce that The CSNAT Approach Training and Implementation Tookit has now launched! The new online training package can be accessed free of charge and allows … Continue reading
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Update on the latest CSNAT research
We have two research projects currently running in collaboration between the University of Manchester and University of Cambridge, exploring the use of the CSNAT in different settings. In the CSNAT hospital discharge study, we are looking at the feasibility … Continue reading
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New face to face CSNAT training workshops
We are pleased to announce that new training workshops are now available in the autumn for palliative care services planning to implement the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool in a UK setting. This carer-led approach to assessment and support is … Continue reading
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Survey on Carer Assessment and Support
If you are a member of Hospice UK providing services for adult patients, you should have recently received a survey to complete – the Hospice UK Organisational Survey of Carer Assessment and Support. You will be pleased to know that … Continue reading
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Meet the CSNAT team
The CSNAT team were delighted to attend Marie Curie’s 2017 conference and would like to thank Pete Jones for providing us with our very first official team photograph. Left to right: Professor Gunn Grande (University of Manchester); Dr Janet Diffin … Continue reading
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Funding awarded from Marie Curie and the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA)
We are delighted to announce that our team, together with our collaborators Dr John Ealing (MND Care Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust), Professor Carolyn Young (Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool) Dr Chris McDermott (Sheffield … Continue reading
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Presentation at the 9th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care
Dr Janet Diffin recently presented findings from our national study looking at the implementation of the CSNAT intervention across 36 UK palliative/end-of-life care services. This study was entitled ‘The influence of orgnaisational context on staff attitudes to to the implementation … Continue reading
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CSNAT ‘Down Under’
Dr Gail Ewing traveled to Australia in December 2015 and attended the meeting of the North and West Metropolitan Palliative Care Consortium in Melbourne. The CSNAT is now being implemented in a large number of services across the region.
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Presentation at Hospice UK Annual Conference 2015
Professor Gunn Grande presented at the Hospice UK Annual Conference on Thursday 12th November 2015. The presentation was entitled ‘Family Carers: what do we know, what do we need to know’. Click here to download the presentation
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