Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre

The Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre brings together researchers, health and social care professionals from a range of disciplines, patients, families and members of the public to find and help deliver the best palliative care services and treatments.

We conduct palliative care research, and provide education and information relevant to the needs of people living with and dying from serious illness, their families and communities. We aim to improve quality of life and reduce inequalities in care, especially those driven by socio-economic status and diagnosis.

We are committed to involving patients, carers, families and local communities as active partners in shaping our research. We want to make sure that people with many different perspectives and experiences have the chance to influence what we do and how we do it. This helps us to focus on what really matters to people.

What is palliative care?

Palliative care is the active total care of people with progressive, life-limiting illness to help them to live well through control of symptoms, support for psychological, social and spiritual concerns and care for their families and friends.

Palliative care can be applied as an extra layer of care alongside treatment of medical conditions which aims to cure or prolong life. It should be available according to need, and not restricted by diagnosis or prognosis.

Recognised by Research England for international collaboration

Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre is one of eight partnerships across al universities in England to receive funding from Research England, part of UK Research and Innovation as part of their new International Investment Initiative. As part of the initiative the Centre will receive £403,510 to boost their international collaboration with the Centre for Improving Palliation and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT) group in the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

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Discover more about our Centre and our research

The work of the Centre is making a real difference to patient’s lives – and their families too. Discover more about our inspirational people and our impactful research through our pages below.

If you are inspired by our research and you would like to collaborate, visit or study with us, please do get in touch: WolfsonPallCare@hyms.ac.uk

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Bringing Breathlessness into View exhibition

In collaboration with artists and local people living with breathlessness, we have created the Bringing Breathlessness into View exhibition, which aims to raise awareness of what it is like to live with breathlessness, and enable people to access support to manage breathlessness well.

This multi-media mobile exhibition has been co-created by local people living with breathlessness, photographic and sound artists and health researchers. The exhibition has striking images and engaging sound recordings to help people understand what it is like to have breathlessness.

It will go on display at GP surgeries and community centres across Hull and the East Riding. We hope visitors will find the exhibition thought provoking and develop a greater understanding of the difficulties it causes.

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Piece from the Bringing Breathlessness into View exhibition

Our aims

We aim to:

generate new knowledge in four areas:
- under-researched symptoms and problems
- reducing inequalities, improving access, and optimising delivery of care
- improving wellbeing of those receiving palliative care, including measurement of outcomes
- develop better methods and testing novel approaches for palliative care research

build and sustain palliative care research capacity
translate and implement results from palliative care research to improve services