Enabling Digital Memories training for healthcare professionals. Build confidence in supporting digital legacies within Advance Care Planning.
Led by Trevor Farrington, Nurse Consultant | Tier 2 Intermediate Level
St Clare Hospice’s Enabling Digital Memories training is a half-day, in-person course designed to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and practical skills to help patients create meaningful digital legacies.
Led by Trevor Farrington, Nurse Consultant, and St Clare Hospice Chaplain Rev Becky Leach, it will explore how conversations around digital assets can be sensitively integrated into high-quality, person-centred Advance Care Planning (ACP).
Why choose this Tier 2 training?
This training is ideal for healthcare professionals who want to build their confidence in discussing digital legacies and digital assets with patients and families. It offers the chance to strengthen your skills in Advance Care Planning while deepening your palliative and end-of-life care knowledge at a Tier 2 level.
By choosing this course, you will enhance your ability to provide holistic, person-centred care, helping patients express their values, identity, and life stories through digital means as part of high-quality ACP practice.
It is suitable whether you are new to digital legacy conversations or looking to deepen your practice within ACP.
Who is this course for?
This training is specifically tailored for:
- Any healthcare professional who leads Advance Care Planning discussions
- Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Social Workers, Support Workers and others working regularly with people approaching end-of-life
- Professionals seeking Tier 2 palliative and end-of-life care development, focusing on managing challenging scenarios and enhancing practical expertise
- Those working in hospices, hospitals, community teams, care homes and primary care settings
If you support patients in exploring choices, wishes or values, this session will strengthen your ability to create meaningful and compassionate digital legacy conversations.
About the course
Duration: 2.5 hours
Format: Onsite session at St Clare Hospice
Time: 1.30pm to 4pm (tea and coffee will be available)
Trainer: Trevor Farrington, Nurse Consultant and Rev Becky Leach, St Clare Hospice Chaplain
This in-person, half-day training offers a reflective yet practical space to explore how digital memories can enrich the experience of patients and families during serious illness. The training is grounded in specialist palliative care expertise and real frontline experience.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand what a digital legacy is and identify the different types of digital assets individuals may wish to preserve
- Link digital asset conversations with Advance Care Planning, ensuring they are approached sensitively, ethically and in a person-centred manner
- Enable service users to create digital legacies using contemporary digital tools, platforms and accessible memory-making techniques
These outcomes support both professional development and enhanced patient care across a wide range of clinical and community settings.
What makes this training valuable?
Digital identity is now a significant part of how people communicate, store memories and share their stories. As digital life becomes increasingly central to personal legacy, healthcare professionals play a key role in helping individuals consider what they want to preserve and how.
This Enabling Digital Memories training adds value by:
- Filling a growing knowledge gap around digital legacy in palliative care
- Helping clinicians navigate conversations that are increasingly relevant but often overlooked
- Providing practical methods for integrating digital tools into ACP
- Strengthening person-centred approaches that honour patient preferences, relationships, and values
- Enhancing confidence in managing sensitive or complex discussions
Benefits for healthcare professionals
Through guided discussion, hands-on demonstrations and real-world examples, you will learn how digital assets can enhance person-centred Advance Care Planning and contribute to a holistic understanding of what matters most to individuals.
By completing this course you will gain:
- Enhanced confidence in leading ACP conversations involving digital assets
- Practical skills to support patients in creating meaningful digital memories
- A deeper understanding of digital identity and its relevance in end-of-life planning
- Tools and methods that can be applied immediately in clinical practice
- Improved communication skills and resilience in challenging care scenarios
- Evidence of Tier 2 palliative and end-of-life care development, supporting ongoing CPD and professional growth
How to book your place on this training session
If you would like to pay by invoice, please email us at education@stclarehospice.org.uk with your full contact details (name, organisation, address and telephone number). Your place will be reserved once we receive your email.
Alternatively, you can secure your place today by completing the online form below and making payment online.
For further information about this course, please contact our Education Team by emailing them at education@stclarehospice.org.uk.