Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation

We are a multiprofessional department comprising two Professors, four lecturers (two senior lecturers) and around 30 research, education and support staff and consultants. Staff are based across the three main hospitals to which our Medical School is partnered - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, and King's College Hospital. We also have collaborations with many palliative care teams, hospices and related services in the UK and overseas, and with colleagues throughout King's.  In 2008 the department was designated a WHO Collaborating Centre for Palliative Care and Older People. 
 
In 2010 the department will move into the newly completed Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care. The Institute will bring together academic and clinical staff working in palliative care and rehabilitation, and will strengthen the department’s ability to conduct clinical trials and attract multi-professional funding.  The Institute will be the world's first purpose built institute for palliative care, enhancing palliative care worldwide, and seeking to influence the lives of an estimated one billion people within 10 years of opening.
 
We have an exciting team of staff with a diverse range of backgrounds, from medicine to sociology to anthropology.
 
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Palliative Care Service assessment
A team within the department has completed a trial investigating the effectiveness of a new palliative care service in MS. The trial found that palliative care services offered to patients with conditions other than cancer could save the NHS millions of pounds and plug a gap in service provision.

Depression and palliative care
Researchers at King’s have developed a clinical practice guideline on the management of depression in palliative care.

RAE recognises "outstanding palliative care research"
The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirms  King’s College London is one of the top two UK universities for the impact of its health sciences research. In particular the Panel commented on “outstanding palliative care research”.