PGDip Palliative Care: Implementing Best Practice course

Life expectancy is increasing worldwide, with people living for longer and often with multiple chronic conditions. Palliative care, including rehabilitation and ‘living well’, is increasingly needed in people’s homes and other community settings, as well as in hospices and hospitals.

Delivering evidence-based, cost-effective palliative care in partnership with communities requires health and social care professionals, policymakers and researchers who can lead change and use robust evidence to inform their work. These professionals must be able to design, conduct, and critically appraise research about what should be done, how it is done, and to what effect. There is an urgent need for professionals in this field to drive positive change in palliative care.

Our MSc in Palliative Care: Implementing Best Practice programme is designed to address this significant gap. It will enable and empower you, whether you are a health and social care professional, policymaker or researcher, to progress your development, delivery and evaluation of care that facilitates best practice in palliative care and long-term conditions.

On this course, you will learn how to develop, deliver and evaluate care that facilitates best practice in palliative care and the care of people living with long-term conditions.

This programme is delivered 100% online, allowing you to access our world-renowned, research-led teaching from anywhere in the world. Designed specifically for an online audience, we use a range of interactive activities to support learning, including discussion forums, webinars and online lectures.

Key benefits

• Develop the research and personal skills, attributes, and confidence to apply your learning to implement evidence-based palliative care whether your focus is hospital, hospice, or community, regional, national or international
• Delivered by some of the world’s leading palliative care experts within the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, who have helped shape clinical guidelines and government policy
• Qualification progression routes: PGCert, PGDip and MSc
• Build your global network of palliative care professionals and connect with like-minded peers
• Study mode is 100% online – you can study anywhere
• Flexible study options – full-time or part-time

Meet the Programme Director

Book a one-to-one chat with Programme Director Professor Mark Pearson to learn more about our PGCert, PGDip and MSc in Palliative Care: Implementing Best Practice.

Get the answers to your questions about the course, studying at Hull York Medical School, support, finance and more.

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