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.

2nd Wolfson Palliative Care Research Conference

Thursday 7 March 2019, 12.30pm - 4.30pm
University of Hull

The conference is to showcase our research work to our local and regional collaborators, partners and stakeholders. This conference is relevant to clinicians, researchers and policy makers with an interest in palliative care and palliative care research.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Julia Verne, Head of Clinical Epidemiology for Public Health England, Clinical Lead of the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network, and Consultant in Public Health Medicine

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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.

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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collaborations-cropped — Partners and collaborators

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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