SPPC Annual Conference 2026: Tools for a Changing World

This one-day SPPC meeting is for people working across palliative and end-of-life care who want practical approaches to changing demographics, financial pressure, widening inequalities and evolving social structures. It takes place at the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh on 28 October 2026, with the organiser explicitly building in time for professional connections.

Confirmed sessions cover technology in palliative care for older people, economic evidence, Compassionate Connectors, inequalities in general practice and district nursing, links between palliative care and geriatrics, advanced dementia, and multimorbidity. The published faculty includes Mark Taubert, Peter May, Samar Aoun, Carey Lunan, Kaye Nicoll, Erica Borgstrom, Deans Buchanan, Lynsey Fielden, Jenni Burton, Lorna Reid, Lesley Wylie and Sarah Bowers. A timed agenda has not yet been published.

The research route is a poster proposal rather than a conventional abstract portal. You complete the organiser’s Word proposal form and email it by 16 September 2026; successful work is intended for the conference poster exhibition, with rapid-fire presentations also advertised. The source invites interesting projects or areas of work, but does not state a word limit, required abstract structure, poster dimensions, author limit, categories, scoring method or publication outcome. Anyone attending to present a poster must register as a delegate and pay the usual fee.

The live booking page lists £155 for a member delegate, £205 for a non-member delegate and £90 for a student; a non-member display table is £350. The organiser says the early-bird rate ends on 18 September 2026, but does not publish the later rate table or a general registration closing date. No online attendance option or CPD accreditation is stated on the current pages.