Video clips

MacPaCC members on what kind of evidence the group has produced...

A new form of palliative care in the community:  Midhurst

• Nigel King (Professor in Applied Psychology) highlights the flexible working by staff that helped make the Midhurst service effective. View clip.
• Adrienne Betteley (Macmillan Cancer Support) and oral historian Michelle Winslow reflect on how the Midhurst service has helped Macmillan think about its priorities when influencing commissioners in the UK. View clip.

Professional relationships matter

• Nigel King urges policy makers to understand the importance of personal networks to patient care. View clip.
• Nigel King has recently completed a large qualitative study called "Unpicking the threads", which looked at the relationships between professionals, especially nurses.
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Saving a loved one's voice

• Adrienne Betteley in dialogue with oral historian Michelle Winslow. View clip.
• Roberta Lovick, who sadly lost her daughter to cancer, describes how she came to understand the importance of research for the future of supportive care - and to value the oral history project. View clip.

Reviewing patient needs
Eila Watson (Professor in Supportive Cancer Care at Oxford Brookes University) talks about what people affected by cancer want from primary care. View clip.

Multi-method research
Bill Noble's team in Sheffield has looked at what is the right kind of evidence for commissioners of palliative and supportive care. He points to the project evaluating the Midhurst community palliative care pilot service. View clip.

Communication and end-of-life care
One of the group's Macmillan-funded projects looked at the feasibility of using a holistic needs assessment questionnaire (SPARC) in primary care. Bill Noble highlights the importance of research into communication in palliative care.
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... and how it works

Evolution of MacPaCC
Dan Munday (Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine) relates how the group has evolved from early studies of processes in end-of-life care to an increasing focus on the professional relationships that make a difference in supportive care. View clip.

A lay person influencing research

• Aware of the tough ethics processes researchers have to go through, Roberta Lovick (lay carer) points out that people affected by cancer often want to be involved in research.
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• Roberta Lovick appreciates the willingness of MacPaCC members to share and collaborate. View clip.

Clinical experience with academic rigour

• Macmillan GP Adviser Charles Campion-Smith stresses the value of MacPaCC's work for discussions with commissioners of cancer services. View clip.
  
• Charles Campion-Smith on how MacPaCC has helped evaluate educational programmes. View clip.

Collaborative ways of working
Bill Noble (Macmillan Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at The University of Sheffield and member of MacPaCC) gives an example of the group helping to improve a questionnaire for a survey of GPs. View clip.