Our research examines current palliative and end of life care practices in community and primary care, and we are developing innovative ways to improve service delivery across health and social care. We focus particularly on investigating better ways of working to deliver effective and timely care for people dying at home, including improving end-of-life symptom control.
Projects in this area include:
- Are transmucosal anticipatory medications a viable end-of-life intervention in the community? A systematic review and narrative synthesis of the published evidence
- Community nurses’ experiences of using an anticipatory medication decision aid tool: a qualitative study
- Developing research-driven personas to improve injectable ‘just-in-case’ medication use at the end of life
- Exploring access to controlled drugs for palliative and end of life care in UK Care Homes
- Families Administering Medications (FAM): Broadening Awareness and supporting staff in practice
- General Practitioners’ Perspectives on their Current and Future Role in Palliative and End-of-life Care
- Identifying community nurses’ contributions to end-of-life care
- Mapping patient and family carer experiences with injectable anticipatory medications: identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Patients’ and families’ experiences of accessing end-of-life injectable medications care
- Stakeholder needs assessment concerning injectable end-of-life symptom control medication
- The hidden work of community nurses’ when providing timely injectable end-of-life medication care: a qualitative study
- Understanding patients’ experiences of dying at home: a systematic literature review
- Using injectable end-of-life symptom control medications at home: understanding human and system factors through inclusive design
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