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Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, UCL. Working to improve care for people with advanced, progressive illness towards the end of their lives.
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/marie-curie-palliative-care-research 20-11-2012 17:47:28
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.Lewis Atkinson MP saying that uncertainty in prognostication goes both ways. But the evidence from UCL Marie Curie is clear - doctors are worse at predicting that someone WILL die within 6-12 months than they WON’T. They are correct in just 46% occasions.

“Life expectancy is increasing, but healthy life expectancy is not keeping at pace” Libby Sallnow on the The Lancet commission on global access to palliative care euronews.com/health/2025/02…

A really interesting article on the importance of death literacy by Dr Kerrie Noonan theguardian.com/society/2025/f…

We are delighted to collaborate with colleagues at Marie Curie Hospice, Liverpool and support PhD students through ubel-dtp How can #VR be used within a hospice setting? Do people want it? What are the key considerations? Important national hospice guidelines to follow Hospice UK

Palliative care researcher Dr Libby Sallnow explains to Mark Mardell how to support people at the end of life. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-d…

Great to see the head of our department, Libby Sallnow in the The Lancet this week. Read more about her 👇

“A significant proportion of patients with metastatic cancer were unaware that their cancer was not curable at referral to the ESC service.” link.springer.com/article/10.100… UCL Marie Curie

Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network Thank you Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network for the huge honor of giving the Hinohara Memorial Lecture 2025, a chance to explore his legacy, its lessons for palliative care today and its intersections with #LancetVoD UCL Marie Curie UCL Brain Sciences The Lancet Marie Curie PHPalliativeCare

🌎Do you know or participate in a community program that supports people through illness, caregiving, dying, or grief? 🌍 We want to hear from you!💬 Take this survey to help us create a Global Atlas to: ✅Raise awareness ✅Inspire others ✅Share ideas 👉qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_3C…


We’ve launched the Connecting Communities Across the Globe survey! 🌍 Help us map community initiatives supporting illness, caregiving, dying, and grief. 📋 Available in all languages. 🔗 Scan the QR code to take part or access this link qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_3C… #UCL #GlobalSurvey


🚨 How and why does integrated palliative care in oncology work? and who whom? Dr Natasha Bradley and colleagues: "Success of integration is influenced by the ways in which palliative care is understood, prioritised, operationalised, and measured." rdcu.be/elqkN


Join UCL Marie Curie Online Conference on advanced care planning (ACP) to learn and think about ACP in novel ways 🗓️Wed 25 June 2025, 10AM – 4PM In partnership with Open Thanatology. Registration closes 22 June. eventbrite.co.uk/e/caught-betwe…

🎉Huge congratulations to Katherine Oliver awarded her #PhD in #PalliativeCare subject to minor corrections. #hpm #hapc


🏅Announcing our awarded Research Impact Grants - 4/6 Connection, Compassion, and Action - Achieving impact towards integrated palliative care through knowledge mobilisation Led by Dr Natasha Bradley, this project will create opportunities for different parts of the healthcare system,

Caring for someone living with dementia at the end of life is often overwhelming. Dr Nicola White UCL Marie Curie @UCLpsychiatry is adapting the Death Literacy Index (DLI) into DLI-dem—a tailored tool boosting carers’ knowledge, confidence, and skills in dementia-specific end-of-life

We are delighted that researchers from our department are leading this vital research. Collaborating with Death Literacy Institute Queen's University Belfast 🎓, Dementia UK, Marie Curie EOLC, and Queen Mary University of London Libby Sallnow Dr Karen Harrison Dening Dr. Lisa Graham-Wisener Vicki Vickerstaff Nuriye Kupeli

Listen to Libby Sallnow & Dr Nicola White talk about their #DLIdem study

Listen to colleagues Dr Nicola White and Dr Libby Sallnow UCL Marie Curie talk about adapting the Death Literacy Index (DLI) into DLI-dem—a tailored tool boosting carers’ knowledge, confidence, and skills in dementia-specific end-of-life care. #DementiaSupport Dementia UK

Understanding and improving death literacy in dementia: the development and implementation of a measure of death literacy for carers of people with dementia - Reuploaded with captions, which unfortunately did not render in this previous post! Please share. Dementia UK UCL Marie Curie

Delighted to be collaborating on this Marie Curie EOLC Alzheimer's Society For Researchers grant, led by colleagues at UCL Marie Curie, to adapt a measure of #deathliteracy to support carers’ knowledge, confidence, and skills in dementia-specific end-of-life care. See video below for more info! QUB - School of Psychology