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.

• Adapting the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool Intervention (CSNAT-I) for use with parent-carers of children with a life-limiting condition – A Person Based Approach to adaptation and programme theory development

• Appropriate measure of Care-Coordination for patients with Multiple Long-Term Conditions (ACCORD MLTC)

• 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 Racial Bias in Healthcare and Healthcare Education

• Healthcare Professional’s Perception of Parental Roles: Investigating Gender Bias in Paediatric Palliative Care

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

• Informal Caregiving in Non-Malignant Respiratory Disease at End of Life

• Improving Measurement and Priorities for Assessment in Clinical Trials of childhood-onset Dystonia (Dystonia IMPACT): Qualitative Interview study

• NIHR Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) Cross – NIHR Collaboration (CNC) – Models of Care Workstream (Team Science)

• 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

• The Care and Repair Guide – Reducing Environmental Impact and Addressing Skills Gaps Through Responsible Wardrobe Management

• Transforming Care and Improving Safety for Patients with MLTCs

 

• ACCESSA – Access to palliative care by ethnic minorities, with a focus on South Asian communities

• Bereavement EducaTion and Training for Employers Evaluation and Recommendations (BETTER)

• British Thoracic Society Clinical Statements

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

• Collaborative Paediatric Palliative Research (CoPPaR) Network

• Crisis Prevention rather than Crisis Management

• The C-POS Questionnaire – Children’s Palliative Care Outcome Scale Validation Study

• 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

• Engaging GPs In Transition – Improving the Transition for Young People from Childhood to Adult Services

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

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

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

• Improving Discussion about Resuscitation for Bereaved Relatives in COVID-19

• Serious Illness Care Programme North East (SICP NE)

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

• PEACE – Palliative and end of life experiences of people of African and Caribbean Descent during COVID-19

• PIPCaR – Participating in Palliative Care Research

• PONDER – Supporting people to make decisions that are right for them

• What Does ‘Good’ Palliative Care Look Like for Children and Young People?

• Validation of the Self-competence in Death Work Scale among helping professionals in palliative and hospice care in the UK

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