Research
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Northern Ireland Hospice is fully committed to fostering, encouraging and supporting a quality research culture internally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Over the last ten years Northern Ireland Hospice and the University of Ulster have been working collaboratively on research studies forming a multi professional research committee in January 2008.
The remit of the group is to:
- Identify research and development needs, priorities and direction
- Promote research awareness and research skills training
- Encourage and facilitate research and development activity through agreed programmes of research
- Be recognised regionally, nationally and internationally through undertaking high quality research
- Promote and maintain strategic links and partnerships with academic institutions and other agencies
- Ensure that research and development policies reflect Research Governance and regional guidelines
The current research priority themes identified by the research group are:
- Clinical Symptom Management
- Organisation of Palliative Care across Boundaries
- Communication needs of patients at advanced stages of illness
- Care of Marginalised Groups
The following projects are examples of work currently being undertaken by members of the research group:
- Palliative Care Needs of People with Parkinson’s disease
- Specialist Palliative Care and Learning Disability Service: promoting collaborative working
- Overview of Systematic Reviews on Interventions for Managing Fatigue & Weight Loss in Adults with Advanced Progressive Illness
- Assessment of Patient Centredness in the Clinical, Administrative and Cultural Life of a Hospice In-Patient Care
