Funding for end-of-life care research

The Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care will enable leading researchers to work alongside each other in a purpose built building to deliver high quality palliative care solutions to patients, as well as providing education, patient information and support.

This follows the recently launched End-of-Life Care Strategy, backed with £286 million of Government funding.

The new building will provide the capacity to:

• Increase the numbers of doctors and nurses trained at Kings College London in best practice in end-of-life care.

• Provide facilities for research to discover better ways to care for patients at home, support care givers and prevent and control symptoms.

• Enable research to continue to examine support and treatments for conditions such as MS, end-stage renal disease, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cancer.