Equipping community services to meet the palliative care needs of older people with frailty approaching the end of life; a mixed methods study

Biography

Caroline Nicholson is a clinical academic nurse who champions Palliative Care For ALL. She holds a chair in Palliative Care and Ageing within the School of Health Science, University of Surrey and a Visiting professor at St Christopher’s Hospice London.  

Caroline qualified as a Registered Nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London. She worked as a specialist Palliative Care Nurse before undertaking a combined BSc (Hons) in Community Nursing DN/HV Certs at King’s College London.  She went on to an MSc in Medical Anthropology at Brunel University London before completing her PhD at City University, London in 2009. She is a FHEA from the Institute of Education and holds a diploma in psycho-dynamic approaches to old age from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London

Caroline leads a research programme focussed supporting older people and their carers to live AND die well over a life long-lived. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/living-and-dying-well-research  She is particularly interested in the transitions that occurs in the last phase of life and supporting integrative services and structures to enable care closer to home.  She has published extensively in the field of frailty including co-editing the BGS guidance on end of life and frailty for clinicians across the multi-disciplinary team. She is a core re member of the European Association for Palliative Care Reference group on Ageing and Palliative Care and Faculty member of the International Fellowship in Palliative Care.   She has a long-held interest in the experiences and palliative care needs of older people and their families and is co-lead in End of life Care for the British Geriatrics Society.

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Biography

Simon Skene is Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics within the School of Biosciences.

Simon has over 20 years’ experience as a medical statistician in teaching and research, including the design and analysis of clinical trials and studies investigating medicinal products, advanced therapies, diagnostic accuracy and surgery. He has a strong interest in the evaluation of digital health technologies, including those underpinned by artificial intelligence, in real life settings. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and has consultancy experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Simon provides expertise in statistics and research methodologies to support decision-based practice in health and medicine, and has been a co-investigator on a number of projects successfully funded by NIHR, MRC, Innovate UK and NHS England (/DHSC) as well as charities such as Diabetes UK. 

Simon was Director of Surrey Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) from 2018-23, gaining full registration with UKCRC in 2019, and was additionally Head of Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine from 2019-22.

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