For Healthcare Professionals

If you're a GP, District Nurse, Marie Curie Nurse, palliative care specialist or other healthcare professional, then this part of the website is for you.

You can find out about accessing our services - including details of what's available at PCT level - along with a host of information about managing the dying cancer patient at home.

There's a link through to the Liverpool Care Pathway website, along with details of all Marie Curie Cancer Care's education programmes and palliative care research work.

We administer and manage two National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) initiatives which aim to promote and facilitate quality research in Supportive and Palliative Care (SuPaC):

1. NCRI Lung Cancer SuPaC Research Award (new)
2. NCRI SuPaC Research Collaboratives

Liverpool Care Pathway

The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for the dying patient has been developed to transfer the hospice model of care into other care settings.

Marie Curie Helper

A Marie Curie Helper is a trained volunteer who provides support to terminally ill people and their family or carer. They are someone a patient or carer can talk to – someone who is able to listen and offer advice on local services that they might benefit from.

The Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit, London (MCPCRU)

The MCPCRU was established in 1999, and is now based in the Department of Mental Health Sciences at University College London (the Hampstead Campus) where it has expanded rapidly.

Palliative Care Research Institute Liverpool

The Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool (MCPCIL) is a partnership between Marie Curie Cancer Care, the University of Liverpool and The Royal Liverpool University Hospitals, and was established in 2004.

Delivering Choice Programme

Marie Curie Cancer Care has launched its first major palliative care service improvement plan, the Delivering Choice Programme, to provide greater patient choice in end-of-life care.