Cathy Shipman

TL;DR: A national consultation and prioritising exercise using a modified form of the nominal group technique to identify major concerns of national and local importance in the provision, commissioning, research, and use of generalist end of life care.

TL;DR: Investigating palliative care patients' and carers' perceptions of the benefits and problems associated with open interviews and to understand what causes distress and what is helpful about participation in a research interview finds the context is at least as important as the format of the research interview.

TL;DR: Analysis of the recruitment process revealed differential patterns in decline and acceptance of interviews by patients with different conditions and across settings, suggesting a need for ethics committees to reconsider their views and widen their perspectives on the involvement of palliative care patients and carers in research.

TL;DR: Palliative care specific support mechanisms and ways of working may be necessary to meet patients' and professionals' expectations of effective, compassionate care at the end of life.

TL;DR: There were significant variations in the receipt of district nursing, general practitioner care and other health and social care and the reported quality of this care, for decedents dying of cancer and non-cancer causes.