This webinar is open to all healthcare staff

Navigating conversations about paediatric palliative care (PPC) can be challenging for healthcare professionals, yet these discussions are vital for supporting children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions together with their families.  Late referrals to paediatric palliative care (PCC) can adversely affect a child's illness trajectory.  The aim of this session is to offer practical guidance about how to introduce and discuss PPC care in a timely manner with sensitivity, clarity, and empathy.

This online session allows participants to watch a real-time interactive demonstration led by EC4H tutors as we explore effective ways to support the early integration of paediatric palliative care (PPC) with the parents of a child with an oncology diagnosis and where their disease has relapsed several times, they are receiving palliative chemotherapy.'

Participants will learn strategies to:

• Recognise that paediatric palliative care can be introduced alongside potentially curative or disease-modifying treatments i.e. parallel planning
• Communicate complex medical information in a family-centred way
• Foster trust while empowering families to make informed decisions

Tutor Team

Dr Belinda Hacking

EC4H Lead Tutor

Professor Belinda Hacking set up EC4H in 2002 and has led the development of this national training network. She has worked with professionals in healthcare across the UK developing the EC4H coaching and training programmes in clinical communication.  Until January 2025, Belinda worked for NHS Lothian as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and the Director of Psychology.  Belinda has a special interest in shared decision-making in healthcare and has more than 40 publications focusing on psychological adjustment in palliative care, clinical communication and shared decision making. HCPC accredited. British Psychological Society membership: 33194

Dr Satyajit Ray

EC4H Tutor

Dr. Satyajit Ray is a Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine working between Rachel House Children’s Hospice with Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) and NHS Lothian Royal Hospital for Children and Young People’s Paediatric Palliative Care Team. He has been an Honorary Clinical Lecturer with the University of Glasgow supporting medical undergraduate training and has been an attendee at EC4H courses since 2022. He completed his EC4H tutor training in December 2025.
GMC number: 7447498

Katrina Marshall

EC4H Tutor

Katrina Marshall is a Palliative Care Nurse Specialist working within the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People’s Paediatric Palliative Care Team. She completed her EC4H tutor training in September 2024.

GMC number: 7447498