Professor Fliss Murtagh PhD, FRCP, MRCGP, MBBS
Professor of Palliative Care (Visiting)
Research interests
- Palliative care
Research
Out-of-Hours Community Palliative Care
Understanding and improving community-based palliative care outside of normal working hours.
Project status: Completed
International Access Rights & Empowerment II
IARE II is an observational study of frail older people who do not have access to specialist palliative care services.
Project status: Ongoing
Better End of Life Project
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
CovPall: Rapid Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Palliative & End of Life Care
The CovPall Project aims to understand more about how palliative care services and hospices are responding to COVID-19.
Project status: Ongoing
CHESS – Complexity and outcomes in health, education, and social support for children and young people with life-limiting conditions: establishing a multisectoral collaborative and conceptual framework to advance evidence and practice’
Agreeing a method to identify and measure complexity in children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
Project status: Ongoing
News
Specialist palliative care can save the NHS up to £8,000 per person and improves quality of life
As well as significantly reducing overall cost of care per person, specialist palliative care delivered at home and in the hospital was found to be associated...
Almost one in three people in England die without the basic care they need
Around 170,000 people in England every year spend their final days in pain, distress or without vital support that should be available to everyone at the end...
New tool launched to help provide person-centred care for people living with HIV
The POSITIVE Outcomes tool can support people with HIV and help healthcare professionals understand where to focus their care.
Research
Out-of-Hours Community Palliative Care
Understanding and improving community-based palliative care outside of normal working hours.
Project status: Completed
International Access Rights & Empowerment II
IARE II is an observational study of frail older people who do not have access to specialist palliative care services.
Project status: Ongoing
Better End of Life Project
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
CovPall: Rapid Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Palliative & End of Life Care
The CovPall Project aims to understand more about how palliative care services and hospices are responding to COVID-19.
Project status: Ongoing
CHESS – Complexity and outcomes in health, education, and social support for children and young people with life-limiting conditions: establishing a multisectoral collaborative and conceptual framework to advance evidence and practice’
Agreeing a method to identify and measure complexity in children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
Project status: Ongoing
News
Specialist palliative care can save the NHS up to £8,000 per person and improves quality of life
As well as significantly reducing overall cost of care per person, specialist palliative care delivered at home and in the hospital was found to be associated...
Almost one in three people in England die without the basic care they need
Around 170,000 people in England every year spend their final days in pain, distress or without vital support that should be available to everyone at the end...
New tool launched to help provide person-centred care for people living with HIV
The POSITIVE Outcomes tool can support people with HIV and help healthcare professionals understand where to focus their care.