Dr Ben Bowers received the Queen’s Nursing Institute Award for Outstanding Service today, in recognition of his person-centred approach and leadership in advancing care for patients and families at home. His award for Outstanding Service recognises that Ben’s clinical practice, leadership and research have already had an enduring impact on improving person-centred care. Ben is […]
Terminally ill people struggling to access essential care at home during evenings and weekends
Terminally ill people are struggling to access essential care at home during evenings and weekends, according to new research from King’s College London, Hull York Medical School and the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge. Marie Curie, which funded the research, warns that the findings mean that people are dying in pain. Read […]
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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