Three separate conference awards were made to members of the Cambridge Palliative and End of Life Care Group at the most important UK conference on palliative care – the APM Annual Supportive & Palliative Care Conference 2019. The awards brought Cambridge research into the spotlight at the event, which draws clinicians together with researchers and […]
Preventive drugs in the last year of life of older adults with cancer: Is there room for deprescribing?
The continuation of preventive drugs among older patients with advanced cancer is examined in a recent publication in the research journal, Cancer. Dr Stephen Barclay (Department Public Health & Primary Care), collaborated with colleagues from the Karolinska Institute and Newcastle University, finding that the use of preventive drugs in the last year of life is […]
New way of assessing the support needs of patients with progressive lung disease now available to all GPs
A new way to help people with progressive diseases receive better person-centred care has now been made available to GPs and nursing teams across England. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and University of East Anglia developed the tool, which is easy to use and available free to NHS clinicians. From overcoming boredom or loneliness […]
Health research project required advice or approval from 89 different people to get the green light, in case study of approvals process
Which health research projects involving humans are ethically justified, safe and legal? Who decides whether they should get the green light to proceed? In one case study, researchers at the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge, found that eighty nine different people were involved in approving a single small scale health research study for ethics […]