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Evaluating & Improving Care

We improve the care and treatment of patients and their families by studying and understanding opportunities to optimise services, developing and trialing refined or new models of care, and providing evidence about the effects of care and treatment.  

Informed by observational studies and comparative effectiveness evaluations, we seek to develop, evaluate and implement new models of palliative and end of life care suited to multimorbidity, with integration that extends into and beyond disease-centred specialties, such as rehabilitation, geriatrics, primary and social care. Our work aims to build understanding around relevant indicators of need including symptoms, existing and new delivery models such as short-term integrated palliative care, and health and social care outcomes including evaluation of service use and costs.

Our study designs include randomised multicentre trials, feasibility testing and evaluation, systematic reviews, service modelling and theory development. We draw on guidance for the development and evaluation of complex interventions from the Medical Research Council, the MORECare statement specifically for palliative care and our recent MORECare Capacity statement on the process of consent for research on end of life care. 

Research projects

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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

Better Treatments for Refractory Breathlessness

Principal investigators: Irene J Higginson.

Better Treatments for Refractory Breathlessness (BETTER-B) aims to improve the lives of people with severe breathlessness.

Project status: Ongoing

CPOS: 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

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

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