We want your views – help St Catherine’s Hospice develop services for our patients and families

Could you spare some time to share your views of hospice care, to help us develop our services for the benefit of local people?

We’re inviting members of the community to get involved with new and emerging research projects, to share your experiences and thoughts about how people can be better supported at the end of life.

If you’ve had any direct or indirect experience of palliative care, whether yourself as a patient, a friend, or a family member (through St Catherine’s or otherwise); or if you’re a hospice volunteer, or a healthcare professional who comes into contact with end-of-life care provision through your work, we’d really value your input.

The first project is about ‘Digital Technology in Palliative Care’, and we’re looking for people to volunteer to be part of a Research Advisory Board, to participate in a total of four meetings over two years (one every six months), held at St Catherine’s Hospice and online.

Important information

This project is being led by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). If you would like to apply to support this particular study, St Catherine’s Hospice will pass your details on to the university, for this purpose only.

The first step is to form a Research Advisory Board; if we receive more applications than required for this initial step, you could still contribute to the project as a participant further down the line.

St Catherine’s Hospice would also like to keep your information on file and contact you in future, if similar opportunities arise to participate in research, surveys or discussions to help develop hospice services. If at any time you wish to withdraw your interest in participating in our research projects, please just let us know via the email address below.

 How to express your interest

For the ‘Digital Technology in Palliative Care’ Research Advisory Board, UCLan is looking for people who are:

• Aged 18 years and older
• Have had an indirect or direct relatedness with palliative care
• Living or have residency in Preston, Chorley, and South Ribble

To express your interest in volunteering for this project or other future potential research opportunities, please email communications@stcatherines.co.uk by 14th July 2023 with your name and some brief information about your experience of palliative care*

We will then forward your email to the University of Central Lancashire who will contact you with further information about the ‘Digital Technology in Palliative Care’ study, and they will ask you to provide a little more detail about why you’d like to join the Research Advisory Board.

*The reason we are asking you to contact St Catherine’s initially rather than UCLan directly, is so that the hospice can contact you in future when other research projects are being developed.

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