Website: Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care
In February 2008, Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled plans for the world’s first purpose-built institute of palliative care to undertake research into end of life care. Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis announced, in August 2008, a further £1millon grant for the £12.1millon project to establish the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care at King's College Hospital, London.
The Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care will enable leading researchers to work alongside each other in a purpose built building for the first time ever and deliver high quality palliative care solutions to patients, as well as providing education, patient information and support.
Cicely Saunders International is working in partnership with King's College London to build the Institute. Cicely Saunders International was set up in 2002 to promote and carry out research, teaching and training into palliative care. The Institute is based at Kings College Hospital in South East London and is internationally recognised in palliative care research. It has made an important contribution to our understanding of end of life care and helped to inform the recent End of Life Care Strategy.
The new building will bring together leading academics, healthcare professionals, community organisations, patients and carers. The Department of Health grant will help meet the costs of constructing and fitting the Institute with teaching space for researchers and students as well as public spaces for patients and healthcare professionals.
The new building will also provide the capacity to:
King's College London is a research-led university based in London. It is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe.
