Innovation in palliative care services
LOROS aims to provide the best evidence-based care for patients and families. We also want to help other professionals provide care of the highest quality wherever they support patients.
Current projects
The Prognosis in Palliative Care Study II (PiPS2) opened for recruitment at LOROS in October 2016. The study, led by Professor Paddy Stone from University College London, aims to validate the PiPS prognostic scores in an independent cohort of patients with advanced incurable cancer and to compare its accuracy to clinician predictions of survival.
Conversations about resuscitation: The views of senior hospice nurses about conversations with patients and families around DNA-CPR (do not attempt cardio pulmonary resuscitation) decisions and completing the documentation. Ali Pilsworth has been awarded a grant from the Burdett Trust for Nursing to support this work.
Several service development evaluations are also underway:
- The role of the Assistant Nurse Practioner (ANP) in the care of people with Motor Neurone Disease
- Education for care homes
- My story in Music
Completed projects
- The VALE community volunteers at end of life
- An exploration of issues for inpatient hospice nurses in the identification and support of children in need of additional pre-bereavement support when they have a parent who is expected to die.
- Donation of bone and tissue samples, after a patient's death, for research purposes.
- Clinical genetics in a palliative care setting
- Exploration of hospice workers' knowledge of, and attitude towards, organ and tissue donation
- Volunteers with dying patients in care homes (VALE)
- Assistant practitioners in palliative care
- Soul Space – a weekly time-out to support the well-being and spiritual care of Hospice staff. To learn more about Soul Space, click here