No Barriers Here© works with and alongside communities who experience health inequity and structural vulnerability to address systematic barriers and share our learning with healthcare professionals, stakeholders and providers to improve palliative and end of life care for all.
No Barriers Here is a unique and innovative approach to advance care planning for people and communities who experience inequity accessing palliative and end of life care. It was originally co-produced with people with learning disabilities in 2019 and uses arts-based methods to support people to think about advance care planning, whilst ensuring the process is inclusive and accessible. Many people who are marginalised often do not have the opportunity to plan for the end of life. This may be due to systematic barriers, socio-economic factors or a lack of confidence from healthcare professionals. We believe that everyone has the right to receive equitable palliative and end of life care. If you plan ahead and share your wishes for the end of life, it is much more likely that people will understand what matters most and support you in your decision making.
Since 2019, we have worked in co-production with underserved communities as part of No Barriers Here, creating safe and inclusive places within the community for a less verbal yet more equitable approach to advance care planning.
We've diversified our programme to provide creative and arts-based wellbeing workshops for patients, carers, staff and volunteers at @MSHospice
Thank you to @TNLComFund for funding this project for the next two years!
Places are extremely limited for upcoming facilitator training days.
Friday 3 May: 1 place available @MSHospice (West Mids)
Friday 21 June: 3 places available @trinityhospice (London)
For further info: https://www.nobarriershere.org/facilitator-training/training-events/
Illustration: Cass Humphries-Massey
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For anyone registered to attend @NoBarriersHere Facilitator Training at @trinityhospice on Friday 21st June, you may also be interested to attend the @VictStuProject conference on Thursday 20th June 😃 ⬇️
Register here: https://bit.ly/4aozRCs
We’re delighted to collaborate with @DryadEducation to offer our trained @NoBarriersHere facilitators 20% off their first order.
Please visit the #CommunityofPractice area of our website for information about this offer.
Do you provide #palliativecare in the UK? Are you involved in initiatives working alongside people from minoritised ethnic communities? We would love to hear from you for a study we are planning. #hpm #hapc #Minorities #ethnicity