What is important to Palliative Care Patients in Emergency Departments and the Acute Oncology Service
Research type
Research Study
Full title
What is important to Palliative Care Patients in Emergency Departments and the Acute Oncology Service
IRAS ID
366639
Contact name
Mark Banting
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Hospitals Southampton
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 3 months, 24 days
Research summary
We would like to gain patient perspective and insight into the possibility of acute proactive palliative care (PC) in the emergency department (ED) for patients already known to PC services.
We propose that a senior PC presence in ED could improve the patients' journeys, however, to really prove this, we need to know what is important to the patients in the ED themselves.
Therefore, we are proposing that we seek patients who flag as known to PC services and who present to the ED and asking them a simple 2 question questionnaire.
This will help us guide future work around what the PC presence in the ED looks like and what are positive outcomes of that, but also, it will be a useful piece of research about what is important to these patients in ED.REC name
London - South East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
26/PR/0097
Date of REC Opinion
16 Feb 2026
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion