We research

As a research-active hospice rooted in the North East, we produce high quality and meaningful research.

Our Vision

We are committed to active research to help develop, adapt and improve palliative and end-of-life care services that meet the ever-changing needs of our patients and their family and carers.

Working with partners and associates, we also want our evidence-based research to add to national and international knowledge about the cost-effectiveness of hospice care and the impact it has on those who need it, their families, caregivers and society as a whole.

Our culture of continuous learning builds our staff and volunteers’ expertise and helps attract curious minds.

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Research at St Oswald's Hospice

By building on our existing research, we want to establish ourselves as leaders in specialist palliative and end of life care.

Meet our research team

Meet our research team

Find out more about our team leading research at St Oswald’s Hospice.

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Working with our partners

Working with our partners

Read about some of the partners we work with on our active research and find out how to can get in touch if you’re interested in collaborating with us.

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Patient and public involvement in research

Patient and public involvement in research

Interested in taking part in research and helping us to shape and improve services for local people? Find out more about how to take part as well as share your views, ideas and experiences.

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FAQs for healthcare professionals

FAQs for healthcare professionals

We’ve created a helpful resource for healthcare professionals to answer common questions about how and why research is conducted in a hospice setting.

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Research at St Oswald’s Hospice

We are leading on a number of research projects while collaborating with a range of external partners on others.

• CHELsea II Trial – Clinically Assisted Hydration at the End of Life

• Equitable Bereavement Care for All: Understanding the bereavement needs of people from ethnically diverse communities

• Experiences and decision-making processes leading to premature withdrawal from important occupations in Motor Neurone Disease (MND): co-production of a novel Occupational Therapy Intervention to promote occupational engagement

• Exploring the Intimacy Needs of People During Palliative and End of Life Care

• HOPSCOTCH – Helping Optimise Palliative Care Support During Transition from Children’s Hospices

• Palliative and End of Life Care Incubator

• Paramedic Delivery of End of Life Care: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of Service Provision and Professional Practice

• Parent and Professional Experiences of 24/7 Paediatric End Of Life

• PROMISE – Palliative Care Trajectories of People with Multiple Long-Term Conditions

• The P-CARE Study: Developing a UK Palliative Care and Ethnicity Research Consensus Statement

• Transforming Care and Improving Safety for Patients with MLTCs

 

• Deathbed etiquette – The Guide: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Views of Practitioners on its Introduction into End-of-Life Care Settings

• DECIDE – Diverse Experiences of End-of-Life Care in Dementia

• Finding Lost Voices: Enhancing Communication with Children and Young Adults within a Hospice/Short Break Setting

• Serious Illness Care Programme North East (SICP NE)

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