Fellow’s Profile
Sarah Mitchell
Fellow’s Profile
Sarah Mitchell
International Development of Primary Palliative Care
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Improving palliative care by strengthening primary carers' ability to recognise life-limiting conditions
Countries
Fellowship year
2020
Supported by
Locality
Yorkshire and The Humber
Biography
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.
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Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.