Dr Alessandro Bosco, Dr Ben Bowers and colleagues at the Cambridge Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group (PELiCam) are conducting a research study investigating the way community nurses working in district and/or care home nursing teams have been providing end-of-life care since the start of the pandemic. We are inviting 72 community nurses to tell us […]
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 […]
New quality measures needed in end-of-life care
New quality measures are urgently needed for end-of-life and palliative care, to assess the care given to all patients in all settings, say researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Primary Care Unit. That’s because in the UK and elsewhere, end-of life care is provided in many different settings and by a wide range of health […]
Less deprived areas saw biggest increase in deaths at home during pandemic
Deaths at home increased the most in the least deprived areas during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research has found. The report, published on July 15 2022 from the Better End of Life research programme, provides the first evidence that the increase in deaths at home across the UK that occurred during the pandemic was accompanied […]
New Community Nursing Research Community of Practice launched
Community nurses, from novice to expert, came together at a webinar to launch the new Community of Practice for Community Nursing Research in June 2022. The Community of Practice aims to share experiences and expertise in research to drive high-quality care and harness the power of a collective voice to build research capacity. At the […]
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