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Biography
Lucy Coombes is a PhD candidate at the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London and a paediatric palliative care Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Her PhD aims to develop the children’s Palliative Outcome Scale for use by children and young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition and their families and to establish face and content validity, comprehensiveness, comprehensibility, acceptability and feasibility of use. Lucy has an MSc in Palliative Care and a BSc in Biomedical Sciences both from King’s College London. She has been a registered children’s nurse for 20 years, working in paediatric palliative care for the past 13 years.
Research interests:
Outcome measurement, paediatric palliative care
Research
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CPOS: Children’s Palliative care Outcome Scale
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
Research
![girl with family childrens hospital balloons csi 780x450](/newimages/cicelysaunders/main-article/research-projects/girl-with-family-childrens-hospital-balloons-csi-780x450.x56a6d462.png?crop=780,440,0,5&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
CPOS: Children’s Palliative care Outcome Scale
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