Marie Curie awards £760,000 to palliative and end of life care research
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Marie Curie Cancer Care has awarded £760,000 to five projects through the Marie Curie Research Programme. Marie Curie believes that by investing in high-quality palliative care research we can provide immediate and longer-term benefits to people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses towards the end of life. This year the awards encompass research into care for young adults, people living with chronic illnesses such as heart disease and potentially excluded groups such as those within the penal system. Marie Curie believes that it is important that patients, families and carers have access to high quality resources and information and that new research helps determine ways excluded groups fare when accessing specialist palliative care at the end of life. The awards are being formally announced at Marie Curie’s annual research conference held in partnership with the Palliative Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. This year the conference is titled ‘Palliative and end of life care for all – is everybody equal’ on 22 March 2013 (#EOLCequality). The research conference will explore the challenges of delivering palliative and end of life care for potentially excluded groups including lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people, ethnic minorities, and people with learning disabilities. Ahead of the conference Dr Teresa Tate, Medical Advisor to Marie Curie Cancer Care said: “Health and social care services face two overriding challenges in the coming decades: an ageing population and ongoing constraints on public spending. Together, they mean that we will have to find a way of delivering better care, for a greater number of people with complex conditions. Through our research awards we hope to seize the opportunity to change how we care for people at end of life and we are delighted that such a diverse range of projects have been funded to help us address gaps in palliative and end of life research.” Join the conversation @MarieCuriePA #EOLCequality 22 March 2013 |
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1. Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of the UK’s largest charities. Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, it provided care to more than 35,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in its nine hospices last year and is the largest provider of hospice beds outside the NHS.
2. Funding - Around 70 per cent of the charity’s income comes from the generous support of thousands of individuals, membership organisations and businesses, with the balance of our funds coming from the NHS.
3. Research - The charity provides core funding for three palliative care research facilities; the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit at University College London, the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and the Marie Curie Palliative Care Centre at the Wales Cancer Trials Unit (Cardiff University). The charity also supports palliative and end of life care research through its project grant funding streams, the Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Programme (administered by Cancer Research UK) and the Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Fund. Both research programmes aims to tackle the funding and knowledge gap in palliative and end of life care research, which in turn will benefit patients, families and carers. The charity also funds seven fundamental scientific research groups which investigate the causes and treatments of cancer.
4. The Royal Society of Medicine is one of the country's major providers of postgraduate medical education. It has 56 Sections which each provide a multi-disciplinary forum for discussion and debate. Sections cover disciplines as diverse as epidemiology and public health, medical genetics and clinical hypnosis. As well as providing education, the Society aims to promote an exchange of information and ideas on the science, practice and organisation of medicine, both within the health professions and with responsible and informed public opinion. The Society is not a policy-making body and does not issue guidelines or standards of care. Over 400 academic and public meetings are held at the RSM every year. The Society's library is the second largest postgraduate medical library in the world.
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