Palliative care

A research topic within the School of Medicine

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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health
  2. School of Medicine
  3. Research and innovation
  4. Palliative care

Palliative care

Our aims

St Gemma's Academic Unit of Palliative Care aims to improve the care of those at any age and at any stage in a serious illness, including people nearing the end of life. We do this through integrated research, teaching and clinical practice, linking academic, clinical, and third sector partners. We are physically located on two sites: at Leeds Institute of Health Sciences and St Gemma's Hospice. This underpins our commitment to integrated clinical and academic practice and secured the first and only formal award of University Teaching Hospice for St Gemma's Hospice.

What we do

We work to improve the care of those approaching the end of life through integrated research, teaching and clinical practice. Our work is guided by our values:

  • Respect and value patients, carers, staff and all those we work with.
  • Innovate and integrate with local clinical practice.
  • Inspire and support continual development and sharing of knowledge.
  • Build capacity to ensure a sustainable academic unit.
  • Be responsible and accountable for the standard of our work.

Our expertise

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St Gemma's Hospice

Through our dedicated work, in partnership with St Gemma's Hospice in Leeds, we have helped them to become the first University Hospice in the world. The programme was established in 2011 under the leadership of Professor Mike Bennett and continues today under the leadership of Professor Lucy Ziegler.

We have embedded research facilitators at St Gemma’s Hospice to help recruit patients and run clinical trials. We are working with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to support research recruitment in Leeds hospitals.

 

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This is a really important milestone for St Gemma’s. We have a long-standing relationship with the University of Leeds - both in terms of our research work and quality teaching. This national recognition reinforces St Gemma’s position on the international palliative care map and will act as the UK benchmark for integrated clinical and academic palliative care. We’ve recently achieved an Outstanding CQC status commending our clinical care. University Teaching Hospice status now formally acknowledges the work of our Academic Unit of Palliative Care.

PROFESSOR MIKE BENNETT, THE ST GEMMA’S PROFESSOR OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
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Our research

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Our research groups

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Our team

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