ABSTRACT
The Palliative Care Education Group Gloucestershire (PEGG) education programme aims to inspire healthcare professionals to think, to reflect and to improve their professional judgements. Working in palliative care involves working with colleagues from different disciplines in clinical situations filled with uncertainty. Specialists in palliative care have a responsibility to enable their colleagues to deliver a high standard of care to patients with cancer. Healthcare professionals need space, time and a supportive atmosphere in which to learn to understand. PEGG programmes attempt to provide this in several ways: by limiting the numbers, by employing groundrules, by applying positive critique and by encouraging clinicians to see every clinical contact as an opportunity to gain understanding. The learner becomes responsible for their own education and, in learning, seeks to understand. It is this understanding which is the ultimate value in education. The teacher needs to ascertain the learner's needs and then negotiate clear learning objectives.
