Anticipatory Prescribing in community End of Life Care by Dr Ben Bowers Recent innovations and research in end-of-life anticipatory prescribing practice were discussed at a national Study Day hosted by PELiCam on 21 September 2022. The national Cross-Applied Health Research Collaboration (ARC) event brought healthcare professionals and researchers together to share and discuss recent research […]
Community nurse volunteers needed to take part in a research study of GP Care of Care Home Residents at End of Life
Community nurses, district nurses, care home nurses working in London Boroughs of Harrow and Brent are invited to take part The Palliative and End of Life Care Group in the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge and St Luke’s Hospice Harrow, London is running a research project to examine general practitioner care of care […]
Measuring palliative treatment and care from the point of view of patients
Research on using patient questionnaires to find out what palliative care patients want and how they are experiencing their treatment and care will start at the Primary Care Unit’s Palliative and End of Life Care Research group this month, thanks to a grant from Marie Curie. Patient questionnaires to collect patient-centred outcome measures can help […]
Wellcome award for Dr Ben Bowers
Congratulations to Dr Ben Bowers, who has been awarded a Wellcome Post-Doctoral Fellowship to research pressing and sensitive issues in last days of life symptom control. Ben’s interdisciplinary project seeks to understand the human and system factors involved in the safe, effective and timely use of injectable end-of-life symptom control medications for adults dying at […]
The experience of uncertainty in advanced multimorbidity
Similar uncertainties about illness, care, and the future are experienced by older people with multiple advanced chronic illnesses (multimorbidity) and by their carers and healthcare professionals, according to new research from the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge. The research holds promise for supporting the holistic care of those with advanced multimorbidity. Uncertainty […]
Prestigious appointment for Dr Ben Bowers
Dr Ben Bowers, postdoctoral Research Associate with the Primary Care Unit, has been appointed by the Queen’s Nursing Institute as “Community Nursing Research Consultant”. This highly prestigious appointment is in acknowledgement of his major contribution to Community Nursing and to Palliative and End of Life Care research, including his founding of the QNI Community Nursing […]
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