Better End of Life Project Principal investigators: Katherine E Sleeman. Understanding experiences of dying, death, and bereavement in the UK, and compelling local and national policy-makers to act to improve people’s experiences. Project status: Ongoing
C-POS: Children’s Palliative care Outcome Scale Principal investigators: Richard Harding. C-POS will be a person-centred outcome measure to be used by children, young people and families affected by life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Project status: Ongoing
CovPall: Rapid Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Palliative & End of Life Care Principal investigators: Irene J Higginson. The CovPall Project aims to understand more about how palliative care services and hospices are responding to COVID-19. Project status: Ongoing
Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care Principal investigators: Catherine Evans. Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care) is a joint programme between King’s College London and University College London. Project status: Ongoing
Global Health and Palliative Care Principal investigators: Richard Harding, Klaus von Pressentin. NIHR Global Health Research Group on Global Health and Palliative Care (GHAP): expanding access Project status: Ongoing
Improving Access to High Quality Education to Develop Global Leaders in Palliative Care Principal investigators: Clare Ellis-Smith, Richard Harding. The Edupall project aims to develop the MSc in Palliative Care, maximise access and build a future network of international leaders. Project status: Ongoing
Understanding Factors that Influence Why People with Dementia Make Transitions from the Community to Acute Hospital Care Settings in the Last Months of Life Principal investigators: Katherine E Sleeman. Utilising routine data to understand why people with dementia move between healthcare settings in the months preceding their death. Project status: Ongoing
Patients & the public Public involvement is critical to our work and enables us to respond to the changing needs of…
5 November 2021 Research poster makes top three in integrated care category at EAPC Congress 2021 Work part of the ASSET project at the Cicely Saunders Institute has been recognised by the 17th…
8 October 2021 New guide to help healthcare professionals support terminally ill parents to speak to their families Researchers at King's developed the guide with children and young people and Marie Curie.
30 August 2021 Cicely Saunders Institute's Triennial Report published The report takes an in-depth look at Palliative Care and Rehabilitation between 2017-2020.
8 April 2021 Research shows end of life care was not seen as an essential, frontline service in the pandemic Findings from a new report prompt calls for proper recognition and sustainable funding of end of…