Professor Nancy Preston

Professor of Supportive and Palliative Care

Research Overview

Nancy Preston is a Professor of Supportive and Palliative Care. She is the Co-Director of the International Observatory on End-of-Life Care at Lancaster University and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Health and Mediicne.

My research focusses on palliative care and how best to integrate it into general healthcare systems including oncology and respiratory units, ICU, the community, hospices and care homes. I have been involved in seven European studies which focus upon service delivery, enhancing shared decision making and symptom management.

I am particularly interested in how peole make decisions at the end of life including advance care planning and assisted dying.

I am part of the NIHR/Department of Health Policy Research Unit for Palliative Care.

I use novel ways to disseminate research into practice including open access resources such as MOOCs.

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Research Collaboration with Sue Ryder
01/01/2025 → 31/12/2027
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Decolonising palliative care: exploring British Muslims perspectives on End-of-Life Care in the UK, a qualitative study 2024-2027.
04/10/2024 → 30/09/2027
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Horizon Europe: Stepped wedge trial of a palliative care intervention for patients with COPD
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2028
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Horizon Europe: Pal-CYCLES: PALliative Care Yields Cancer welLbEing Support
01/09/2022 → 31/08/2027
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Developing palliative and end-of-life care research partnerships and capacity in the North West Coast of England
01/01/2022 → 30/06/2023
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IAA: Skilling up healthcare professionals to help people in East Lancashire to die in their preferred place of care
01/05/2021 → 20/04/2022
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DSI : Covid : Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on care home pathways, outcomes and safety of care
20/08/2020 → 19/08/2021
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Necessary discussions: Advance care planning for nursing homes in a COVID-19 outbreak
09/06/2020 → 08/09/2021
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Better Care Partnership
01/05/2020 → 31/03/2023
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Better Care Partnership
01/05/2020 → 31/03/2023
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Rapid evaluation of the COVID-19 pandemic response by palliative and end of life care: national delivery, workforce and symptom management (CovPall)
20/04/2020 → 19/04/2021
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Revision of the European Association for Palliative Care Recommended Norms and Standards in Palliative Care for Europe: a Delphi study
01/02/2020 → 31/01/2021
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Scaling up the Family Carer Decision Support Intervention: A multi-site implementation evaluation
01/09/2019 → 28/07/2022
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Scaling up the Family Carer Decision Support Intervention: A transnational effectiveness-implementation evaluation
01/04/2019 → 31/03/2022
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The use of proportional palliative sedation for the relief of refractory symptoms: an international multicenter study
01/01/2019 → 30/06/2024
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MOOC Palliative Care: Making it Work
02/07/2018 → 28/07/2018
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Tender: To evaluate the Age UK End of Life Pathfinder
09/10/2017 → 31/03/2019
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The Namaste Care intervention to improve the quality of dying for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: A realist review and feasibility study for a cluster randomised controlled trial
01/12/2016 → 31/03/2019
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Evaluation End of Life EoL Social Action Fund
06/11/2014 → 30/06/2016
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ACTION: A multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial of advance care planning - an innovative Palliative Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Oncology (European Union FP7)
01/12/2013 → 31/12/2017
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FP7:ACTION: Advanced Care Planning - an Innovative Palliative Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Oncology
01/12/2013 → 31/05/2019
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SUPPORTED: The development of an abdominal support binder for the management of ascites
08/07/2013 → …
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Patient-centered integrated palliative care pathways in advanced cancer and chronic disease
01/11/2012 → 31/10/2016
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An exploration of the practical application of the Western palliative care model in the African context, and the viability of culturally appropriate “compassionate communities” model of care.
01/01/1900 → …
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Enhancing integration of cancer and palliative care hospital services to meet the palliative care needs of patients with cancer
01/01/1900 → …
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The use of the Western palliative model in managing patients in resource-poor settings; the challenges and way forward for Ghana.
01/01/1900 → …
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  • International Observatory on End of Life Care