🏥Announcing six new research projects aiming to improve end of life experiences in, and on discharge from, hospital. Read more and watch the researchers talk about their projects – www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

Introducing our next Research Grants Scheme, Opening 2 June – Care close to home, in and out of hours 💡Our new call for research seeks to fund projects of up to £150K. Researchers, find out more and submit your expression of interest from 2 June to 17 July - www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

There is still time to register for the annual Marie Curie Research into Practice conference - we have a really exciting programme of practice-relevant topics. Thank you so much to all the teams who have submitted spotlight sessions and abstracts! Register here www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

Research Conference 2026

Marie Curie Research into Practice Conference will take place the week commencing Monday 23 February 2026.

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Prizes return for the Marie Curie Research into Practice Conference 2026 In continuation with previous years, we will be presenting four awards. Two are now open for nomination of any researcher in the palliative and end of life care field:

Researchers – Three new commissioned research calls are open for application (below) The aim is for evidence from these projects to inform our policy and campaigns activities. Calls close Friday 12th December 2025 at 5pm. Details can be found on our website - www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

Dr Katharine Weetman, Marie Curie Associate Professor Dr John MacArtney and team have recently published findings on the challenges posing current discharge processes, identifying patient experiences and highlighting suggestions for healthcare professionals, summarised below.

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Latest paper with Katherine Weetman et al. on improving specialist palliative care discharge: bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @nihr.bsky.social @warwickmed.bsky.social @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social @mariecurieuk.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social @nhscovwarksicb.bsky.social 1/

The Chief Medical Officer for England’s 2023 Annual Report on Health in an Ageing Society identified that more research needs to include older people. That's why we've joined other organisations in signing a statement of intent and to take action. Read more - www.nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-an...

🚨Calling researchers - Submissions for abstracts and spotlight sessions for the Marie Curie Research into Practice Conference 2026 are now open! www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

@mariecurieuk.bsky.social and @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social announce the projects awarded through our research funding partnership. The projects aim to tackle the urgent need for better dementia-specific end-of-life care. Find the individual projects ⬇️ www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

Priorities identified through the Marie Curie/James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Partnership have guided our research grants scheme; end of life care in, and discharge from, hospitals. Read the JLA blog to learn more👇 And visit the scheme page - www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

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📢 ‪@mariecurieuk.bsky.social‬ has launched a funding opportunity that responds directly to the questions raised by patients, carers, and clinicians through the Palliative and End of Life Care Refresh PSP! More info in our latest blog post ➡️ buff.ly/KlHMxgO ‪@mariecurieeolc.bsky.social‬

The @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social research call is now open. We're delighted to partner up with two brilliant hospital charities: Leeds Hospitals Charity and Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity. Deadline for expressions of interest is 21 July 25 www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

Research Grants Scheme: improving hospital experiences

Marie Curie's next call for research will focus on improving the quality of care and discharge processes in hospitals for people at the end of life.

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*FAO all hospices!* We want to help you set-up and develop a Men's Shed support group. For more information please watch our short presentation (25mins) explaining what Men's Sheds are, the benefits they bring, and how we are able to help you start your own! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ZY...

How to start a Men's Shed in your hospice

YouTube video by Marie Curie

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Great to see over 100 posters on the management of psychological symptoms & needs at #eapc2025. Check out our poster on research required in this area. And feel free to join our network to exchange ideas on research and practice in this space: www.mainexchange.org.uk

Sharing the results of this important study at #EAPC2025: Mapping the #PalliativeCare #Research workforce in the UK 🗺️ - thoughts? Led by @annefinucane.bsky.social -with wide collaboration including @simonnoahetkind.bsky.social & @flissmurtagh.bsky.social Funded by @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social

My Grief My Way: delighted to present a poster on our bereavement support resource at #eapc2025. Our website content is free to use by all, with further material coming soon! mygriefmyway.co.uk Funded by @mariecurieuk.bsky.social

Congratulations to @andreabruun.bsky.social for winning the @eapcvzw.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Award #EAPC2025 - so well deserved! Brilliant to hear about your career development from PhD @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Research Dept and current work on learning disabilities

Pre-launch: themes for the next @mariecurieuk.bsky.social Research Grants Scheme call, based on the refreshed @jameslindalliance.bsky.social palliative + end of life care research priorities - focus on hospital palliative + end of life care from ED to discharge www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

Call for research: Improving hospital experiences

Marie Curie's next call for research will focus on improving the quality of care and discharge processes in hospitals for people at the end of life.

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I’m presenting at the Dorothy House Palliative Care Research Conference on 5 June, discussing the timely, effective and safe use of injectable end-of-life medications. Bringing together our brand new research for the 1st time! www.dorothyhouse.org.uk/palliative-c...

Palliative Care Research Conference

Our Palliative Care Research Conference aims to support researchers and practitioners to establish research opportunities in their hospice.

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Marie Curie funded research is looking into the palliative and end of life care research workforce. Can you help? The sessions seek to explore your views on the findings and implications for growing the palliative care research workforce in the UK. See below post for details 👇

🏅Our Tammy Prescott public and patient involvement award goes to the team behind the Victoria and Stuart Project! The project was a codesign of a toolkit of resources for advanced care planning for those at the end of life with learning difficulties.

'Dads' Takeaway nights' - most effective in engaging fathers of children who have died suddenly - Sarah Hodkinson and Lisa Dennis from Shooting Star Children's Hospices #MCResearch2025 on their bereavement support model. Very moving and available on catchup www.shootingstar.org.uk/news/shootin...

Shooting Star's bereavement service highly commended at Third Sector Awards

Shooting Star Children’s Hospices has been highly commended in the Breakthrough of the Year category at the prestigious Third Sector Awards 2024 for the ground-breaking expansion of our bereavement se...

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We’re excited to announce the launch of new research priorities for palliative and end of life care! These have been created in a project with the JLA and other partner organisations, including co-funders the ESRC and @mndassoc.bsky.social, and guided by people affected by a life limiting illness.

Most carers of people at the end of life are significantly older, most aged over 65 years, 20% aged over 80 years - striking findings that chime with my experience of my mother caring for my father for > 2 years, aged 84+, Clare Gardiner Sheffield #MCResearch2025 www.sheffield.ac.uk/palliativere...

Financial and employment impacts of end of life family caregiving

Funded by Marie Curie, this study used data from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS) and Health Survey for England (HSE) to explore the financial and employment impacts of end of life caring ...

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Really important new data on unpaid carers from Clare Gradiner, Sheffield #MCResearch2025: between 150,000 and 180,000 people every year are providing unpaid care for someone at the end of life - around 4% of household carers in the UK @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social www.sheffield.ac.uk/palliativere...

Financial and employment impacts of end of life family caregiving

Funded by Marie Curie, this study used data from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS) and Health Survey for England (HSE) to explore the financial and employment impacts of end of life caring ...

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Always shocked by the number of people dying in poverty in the UK - 111,000 in 2023, up from 90,000 in 2019 - higher risk for working age people, women, black minorities, North East, Wales @drjulietstone.bsky.social @helenbarnard.bsky.social @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social #MCResearch2025 bit.ly/42UPfpK

The cost of dying crisis

It shouldn’t be harder to make ends meet at the end of your life. But many people are pushed into poverty after a terminal diagnosis.

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Last day of the @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social Research into Practice conference - another great line up of interesting presentations! I did not manage to catch all sessions live yesterday and Tuesday but will watch them all on catchup #MCResearch2025 mariecurie.ivent-pro.com/events/resea...

Session recording from @spbowers.bsky.social @felicitydewhurst.bsky.social on palliative care for people with multiple long-term conditions #MCResearch2025 now live-this is addressing priority 5 of the new @jameslindalliance.bsky.social Peolc research priorities healthopenresearch.org/documents/7-2

Very interesting abstract session #MCResearch2025 - great to hear from Lynne Partington from @eolp.bsky.social about the @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social impact grant on involvement of activity coordinators in care homes to improve identification and management of depression

Great to be finally able to share the refreshed research priorities identified+prioritised by people with lived/professional experience, a partnership with @jameslindalliance.bsky.social @mndassoc.bsky.social, ESRC @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social Report here: healthopenresearch.org/documents/7-2