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Opinion Piece – The Curse of Stereotypical Thinking – Palliative Care, Hospice Care and Heart Failure
I’ve been a PPI (Patient and Public Involvement) member of Palliative Care projects at QUB (Queens University, Belfast) for several years. My interest

A Carer’s call to action: If we don’t get involved or raise our voices to make sure support is there for everyone, then it might not be there for us
Blog by our Co-Applicant and PPI Representative: Linda Cooper My father Patrick Kelly died in June 2022 from heart failure. His end-of-life care

Reflective Piece on a Carer’s Involvement and Contribution to PalliatHeartSynthesis: Palliative Care in Heart Failure Project
Why I think this project is important, and why I as a carer, wanted to be involved My father had Chronic Heart Failure

Reflective Piece on Patient’s Involvement and Contribution to PalliatHeartSynthesis: Palliative Care in Heart Failure Project
Why it was important to me as a patient to be involved in this project “Yes, I had experienced serious illness with dilated

Hear from the Experts: The Perspective of a Leading Expert in Heart Failure and Palliative Care
Yvonne Millerick is a Heart Failure Palliative Care Nurse Consultant Senior Lecturer employed by Glasgow Caledonian University with a clinical secondment to Glasgow

Some Thoughts on Terminology – a Patient’s View
(For NIHR Palliative Care Project – Queens University Belfast) This special issue paper was written by Mr John Burden, our PPI Partner, following

Hear from the experts: the perspective of a clinician-researcher in heart failure
Professor Joseph G. Rogers is the President and Chief Executive Officer for the Texas Heart Institute, Houston, USA and a member of our

Hear from the experts: people with lived experience.
We are very privileged to have people with lived experience expertise on our research team to ensure our research focuses on what matters