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
C-POS: 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
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: Starting
Research
C-POS: 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
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: Starting