Publication Costs Award Apr 11, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
Projects (32)
Living well with chronic breathlessness: Improving the sustainable use of supported self-management strategies Mar 1, 2023 - Mar 1, 2024
Chronic (persistent) breathlessness restricts social lives and day-to-day tasks. Breathlessness services can support people to self-manage, but there is often a gap between knowing what to do and doing it - true for patients, carers and clinicians al...
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BREATHE-INDIA: BREATHlEssness in INDIA - Development of a breathlessness beliefs and behaviour education intervention for use in the community-setting Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024
PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGE: Chronic (persistent) breathlessness despite treatment of causal disease(s) 1 is associated with disability and a vicious cycle of avoiding physical activity-related breathlessness,2 deconditioning and increasing breathlessnes...
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Health inequalities related to ethnicity and socio-economic position at the end-of-life Mar 1, 2022 - Feb 29, 2024
SERENITY: Towards cancer patient empowerment for optimal use of antithrombotic therapy at the end of life Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2027
The Yorkshire & Humber Palliative Care Research Network: Addressing Inequalities Across All Ages Mar 1, 2022 - Feb 29, 2024
Supporting, enabling and sustaining home care workers to deliver end-of-life care: amultiple-methods community-based case study Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
This 30 month study will;
1) To understand the experience of social care assistants providing end of life care, the care they give, how they work with healthcare staff and family members or friends, and what all involved (including the person...
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TRANSFORM - CanBenefit II: CANcer BEhavioural Nutrition and Exercise FeasIbility Trial among older adults with lung cancer Sep 1, 2021 - Jun 30, 2023
Revision of the 2019 bid to YCR as a TRANSFORM endowment bid.
Exploring ‘the domestic’ in contemporary hospice architecture: a critical examination of the architecture and design of in-patient palliative care facilities in England. Sep 20, 2021 - Jan 19, 2025
Although 40 million people worldwide need palliative care annually, there is a lack of understanding about how the architecture and design of palliative care environments helps or hinders this care.
I will conduct a new critical examination of...
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Adapting a smartphone-based rehabilitation programme for older adults living with and beyond cancer: an intervention development study Apr 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2024
The number of people living with and beyond cancer is growing; many are over 65 years old who often have different and more complicated healthcare needs than younger people.
Being active is one of the best things people with, or who ha...
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NIHR Senior Investigator Award 2019 Apr 1, 2020 - Oct 31, 2024
I3: Building Critical Mass, Increasing Scale and Impact for Palliative Care through International Collaboration Aug 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2025
The world population is ageing and, with the growth of multi-morbidities, UK deaths are expected to increase by 40% by 2040. New models of care and treatments are urgently needed to improve quality of life for the significantly increased numbers of p...
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Children's Palliative care Outcome Scale C-POS Sep 1, 2018 - Feb 28, 2023
Person-centred care is a core health value of modern health care. The overarching aim of C-POS (Children's Palliative care Outcome Scale) is to develop and validate a person-centred outcome measure for children, young people (CYP) and their families...
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BETTER-B: BETter TreatmEnts for Refractory Breathlessness Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2023
CANAssess PC2: Cancer Needs Assessment in Primary Care Jul 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2024
Phase 3 trial to test the effectiveness of the NAT-C tool in primary care to reduce patient and carer unmet needs
BETTER B: BETter TreatmEnts for Refractory Breathlessness Oct 1, 2016 - Mar 31, 2018
Breathlessness is a common, distressing, symptom in advanced disease, causing considerable disability for patients,1, 2 and anxiety and social isolation for them and their family and carers.3-5 Breathlessness (also called dyspnea or dyspnoea) is usua...
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HIDDEN: Hospice Inpatient Deep vein thrombosis detection study May 27, 2016 - Dec 31, 2019
RESOLVE: Improving Health Status and Experience of Pain and other Symptoms for People with Advanced Cancer Jun 1, 2018 - Jan 28, 2024
MABEL: A Parallel Group, Double-blind, Randomised Placebo-controlled Trial Comparing The Efficacy And Cost effectiveness Mar 1, 2019 - Feb 29, 2024
A parallel group, double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial comparing the efficacy and cost effectiveness of low dose oral modified release morphine (MRM) versus placebo on the intensity of breathlessness and daily activity in people with c...
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CANAssess: Reducing inequalities in care for people with cancer and palliative care needs: a programme of work for cancer patients and caregivers in the community based in Yorkshire Sep 1, 2016 - Jan 30, 2019
People with cancer need good access to palliative care to relieve distressing symptoms, but some get better access than others. Developed in Australia, the Needs Assessment Tool - Progressive Disease Cancer (NAT:PD-C) is a tested, "everyday practice"...
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BreatheMOR: Morphine for the relief of breathlessness in stable chronic heart failure Oct 1, 2013 - Feb 28, 2019
Opioids have been used for centuries to relieve pain and other symptoms. A meta-analysis in 2002 of eight randomised controlled trials (RCTs) showed that opioids had a clinically relevant beneficial effect on dyspnoea in people with mainly chronic ob...
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NAT ILD: The adaption and validation of an assessment tool to identify the palliative care needs of people with irreversible idiopathic interstitial lung disease for use in every day clinical practice Jun 1, 2014 - Oct 31, 2016
To adapt and validate a needs assessment tool that is fit for purpose in every day clinical practice with regard to the identification of supportive and palliative needs of people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and triage those requiring r...
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Caring together evaluation project Dec 1, 2014 - Aug 1, 2016
RAMBO: Research Assessment Outcome Measures for Malignant Bowel Obstruction Jul 1, 2019 - Nov 30, 2021
Malignant bowel obstruction (MBO) is a common problem faced by patients with advanced cancer of the ovaries and bowel. It occurs when the cancer causes a blockage or blockages in the intestines. The symptoms are very distressing for patients and thei...
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BREATHE: Breathlessness RElief AT HomE Apr 1, 2019 - Oct 31, 2021
A feasibility study to address this RQ:
Does a paramedic-administered short non-pharmacological complex breathlessness intervention improve breathlessness and reduce conveyance to ED for people with breathlessness crisis compared with usual pr...
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