I am a GP at the White House Surgery in Sheffield and Yorkshire Cancer Research CONNECTS Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield. My PhD was a realist inquiry into palliative care for children (University of Warwick). My interests are primary palliative care, cancer, complexity and multi-morbidity in people of all ages, and medical ethics. Alongside clinical practice and research, I have held a range of regional and national roles to work with policymakers. I currently work as Clinical Director for Palliative and End of Life Care at Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group.

My Fellowship is about improving palliative care across the primary–secondary care boundary. This is an important area where I often encounter problems in practice. My travel to universities and palliative care centres across Canada provides an opportunity to develop research collaborations with colleagues and to learn more about their integrated palliative care services. Learning about strategies to improve identification of needs, care planning and integrated working developed by colleagues to improve the quality of life of patients will inform my ongoing work in the UK.