V1Palliative care in general practice: cancer patient/carer experience

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Palliative care in general practice: cancer patients’ and carers’ experience of their GP’s role

• IRAS ID

  225027

• Contact name

  Patrick White

• Contact email

  patrick.white@kcl.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  King's College London

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 2 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  Palliative care in general practice: cancer patients’ and carers’ experience of their GP’s role

  This is a qualitative interview study exploring patients’ and carers’ experience of:
  1. The role of the GP in providing palliative care to adult patients with cancer
  2. The facilitators and barriers to the GP’s capacity to fulfill this perceived role

  Patients with cancer, who are currently cared for by St Joseph’s Hospice, will be approached by their usual clinical care team and asked if they would like to participate in a single interview. (Some of the direct clinical care team are NHS staff and some care is commissioned by the NHS despite St Joseph's Hospice being a non-NHS site). Patients will be invited to bring their carer to the interview. Interviews will last at least 30 minutes. We will conduct up to 30 audio-recorded semi-structured interviews, which will be carried out at the participant's preferred location (either at home, over the phone, or in a pre-booked room at St Joseph’s Hospice).

  This study will improve understanding of how adult patients with cancer, and their carers, experience the role of their GP in palliative care provision. It will explore what they want, receive and lack from this doctor-patient relationship. Identified factors valued by service users should influence future policy development.

  Dr Emilie Green is an Academic Clinical Fellow in General Practice, and is based in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at King’s College London. This study will form part of her PGCert qualification in Applied Research Methods for Integrated Academic Trainees.

• REC name

  London - Brent Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  17/LO/1287

• Date of REC Opinion

  19 Sep 2017

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion