
Dr Peter May PhD
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics
Research interests
- Palliative care
Contact details
Biography
Dr May is a research scientist focusing on economics of care for people with serious and life-limiting illness. Dr May works with an interdisciplinary network of collaborators to design and analyse evaluations of interventions for patients and their families.
Dr May is also interested in better methods for evaluation in this population, in understanding and quantifying future needs, and in different approaches to understand decision-making. Dr May currently works mostly in the UK, EU and US, but is open to discussing collaboration with researchers of all career stages in any part of the world.
Research interests
- Economics of palliative and end-of-life care
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Research

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

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