YORKSHIRE AND NORTH-EAST ENGLAND
(North Lincolnshire, North Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Teesside, County Durham, Tyneside and Northumberland)
Rep: Leti Hawthorn, Teesside Hospice, Middlesbrough
Phone: 07718 315893
Email: ynegroup@ahpcc.org.uk
News
We have not managed to meet even virtually so far this year but are actively looking to find a time for an online gathering in the next month or so.
We aim to meet on Zoom every two months for a couple of hours. We hope to meet in person at least once between conferences if at all possible, particularly so that we can visit one another’s workplaces and delve more deeply into concerns, share tools and techniques, and provide mutual support. We arrange each meeting using a Doodle Poll.
EASTERN ENGLAND
(Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, South Lincs)
Rep: Paula Graham, St Francis Hospice
Phone: 01708 753319
Email: eegroup@ahpcc.org.uk
News
The group is going well, with a good core of approximately six to eight of us. We meet three or four times a year, and have support / sharing experience / CPD type discussions. We have spent the last eighteen months or so visiting each other in situ which has been educative.
Members of the Midland Group, with guest speaker Revd Canon Georgina Byrne from Worcester Cathedral, at their March 2019 meeting.
THE MIDLANDS
(Derbyshire, Staffordshire, South Notts, West Midlands, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire)
Rep: Sheila Simmonds, Malvern Community Hospital
Phone: 07591 936649
Email: midlandsgroup@ahpcc.org.uk
News
The Midlands Group held a successful hybrid meeting of members on 16th July, hosted in person at LOROS Hospice in Leicester by Carol Lacey, and via Microsoft Teams hosted by Sheila Simmonds. A variety of topics were discussed, as well as members hearing about the recent Annual Conference which took place in May, in Derbyshire.
The next meeting will again be a hybrid one, and will be held at Severn Hospice, Apley Castle, Telford, by kind invitation of Tim Bush, Chaplain. This is planned for Thursday 17th October. Further details will be posted nearer the time.
OXFORD
(Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Bedfordshire)
Rep: Vacant
Phone: tbc
Email: oxfordgroup@ahpcc.org.uk
News
The next meeting of the Oxford regional group to be advised.