2023 Annual report Palliative Care

*Activities

  • Meeting at SAPC ASM 19th July 2023 with in person and online attendance
  • Co-Chairs Sarah Mitchell and Lucy Pocock
  • Membership continues to grow and includes medical students, academics and clinical researchers from primary care, palliative care and health education.

 

*Evidence of impact of the SIG / *Outcomes from SIG meeting at last SAPC ASM (if held)

  • Collaboration through the SIG has led to an editorial in BJGP. Reforming primary palliative care: a call to arms. Emilie Couchman, Lucy Pocock, Ben Bowers, Jenny Harlock, Stephen Barclay, Suzanne Richards, Sarah Mitchell. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38154949/

 

*How affiliation with SAPC has helped the SIG

  • Platform for annual meeting at ASM
  • Opportunity to share progress with academic primary care community through SAPC newsletters / bulletins
  • Association with SAPC provides credibility and profile, leading to:
  1. Opportunities to share plans for research and recruit other interested academics to participate in relevant studies and / or support future proposals e.g. through steering group membership.
  2. Opportunity to take part in relevant project work with policy makers

 

*Future plans

  • SM appointed to National Clinical Director for Palliative and End of Life Care, NHS England
  • New Co-Chair will be appointed early 2024
  • 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
  • Building research capacity in primary care including through PhD supervision (SM co-supervisor for EC)
  • A future Special Interest Group meeting focussed on inequalities in palliative care and the role of primary care.
Special interest group: 
Palliative care