2022 Annual Report Palliative Care

Co-Chairs: Sarah Mitchell, Lucy Pocock

The highlights of 2022 for the Palliative Care SIG have been:

Meeting for the first time since 2019 on Monday 4th July at the SAPC ASM 2022. Nine people attended in person, with three joining online via Zoom. We discussed research during the COVID-19 pandemic, and future research priorities including inequalities in palliative care and the role of communities in bettering primary palliative care.
Recruitment of Dr Lucy Pocock, GP and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, as co-chair of the SIG
Slowly growing our membership over the past year to include medical students, academics and clinical researchers from primary care, palliative care and health education.

Our ambition for 2023 is to work with the SAPC and our respective universities to develop the following ideas:

A regular platform to share relevant meetings / research findings / funding opportunities – this could be via webinars to share research by members of the SIG 

Sharing what works and what doesn’t work in engaging hard to reach populations across the country in research
Engaging students with primary palliative care research – e.g. sharing projects for SSCs
Engaging the primary care multi-disciplinary team in research, including community nurses
An Special Interest Group meeting focussed on inequalities in palliative care and the role of primary care at the 2023 SAPC ASM.