Dr Paul Taylor
MB ChB, PhD
School of Medicine and Population Health
St Luke’s Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine
+44 114 222 0840
Full contact details
School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
-
I am a Palliative Medicine physician working at St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield, having 12 years of consultant experience. During specialist training, I completed a PhD in Health Sciences at Hull and York Medical School, which was awarded in 2012.
I moved to Sheffield in 2017 as a Senior Clinical Lecturer, to develop my own research interests and to lead the research strategy at St Luke’s Hospice. I divide my work between St Luke’s and the University of Sheffield, with additional support to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals when needed.
We have now built an academic team at St Luke’s, and are supporting our clinical workforce to develop their research and educational interests through the Wilkes Institute.
https://stlukeshospice.org.uk/our-services/wilkes-institute/research-at-st-lukes/
- Research interests
-
My research interests relate to palliative and end-of-life care, and include use of routine data, supporting social care delivery and interventional studies in the palliative care context.
I have collaborated with researchers nationally to support St Luke’s involvement with grant funded research, including the current NIHR-funded DAMPEN (£2.5m) project and the recently completed SUPPORTED (£740k) project, and continue to support the Yorkshire Cancer Research funded RESOLVE study (£1.3m).
In addition to developing my own ambitions, I am Head of Research at the St Luke’s Wilkes Institute; I have worked with St Luke’s on developing their existing research portfolio, including recruiting to the multi-centre CHELSEA II trial, EnComPaSS and project ECHO. I have also supported post-graduate students at St Luke’s and SCHARR to complete their research and bring their work to publication.
In collaboration with colleagues at ScHARR, I am supervising an NIHR doctoral fellow to undertake her PhD exploring the role of rehabilitative palliative care, and have previously undertaken research into emergency department use in palliative care patients.
- Publications
-
Journal articles
- Experiences of homecare workers delivering social care at end‐of‐life: insights from a qualitative multiple perspective study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026. View this article in WRRO
- What models of community palliative rehabilitation exist for adults in the United Kingdom? – a national cross-sectional survey. BMC Palliative Care, 25(100). View this article in WRRO
- Co-production with marginalised workers: working with homecare workers and managers caring for people approaching end-of-life. Research Involvement and Engagement. View this article in WRRO
- Symptom prevalence in gastrointestinal cancer: a secondary analysis of IPOS data. Supportive Care in Cancer, 33(10). View this article in WRRO
- Identifying aspects of physiotherapy and occupational therapy provision in community palliative rehabilitation that could improve outcomes: A realist review. Palliative Medicine, 39(7), 734-749. View this article in WRRO
- Sedation from analgesics: patient preference survey. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 15(2), 262-265.
- Six years of Project ECHO: Implementation and evaluation of a hospice-led multiprofessional education programme. Health Informatics Journal, 30(4). View this article in WRRO
- Recognising dying in motor neurone disease: a scoping review. Palliative Medicine, 38(9), 923-934. View this article in WRRO
- Homecare workers needs and experiences in end of life care: rapid review. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 14(e3), e2330-e2340. View this article in WRRO
- Correction: Supported: Supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: A qualitative study protocol. PLOS ONE, 19(2), e0298925-e0298925.
- Emergency department presentations in palliative care patients : a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 14(e1), e476-e479. View this article in WRRO
- Mobile technology and delegated work in specialist community services: the EnComPaSS Integration project. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 14(e1). View this article in WRRO
- Supported: supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: a qualitative study protocol. PLOS ONE, 18(12). View this article in WRRO
- Palliative care teaching in the new internal medicine curriculum: Project ECHO–an innovative approach to postgraduate education. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 13(2), 247-254. View this article in WRRO
- Creating virtual communities of practice for ambulance paramedics: a qualitative evaluation of the use of Project ECHO in end-of-life care. British Paramedic Journal, 7(3), 51-58.
- Measuring quality of dying, death and end-of-life care for children and young people : a scoping review of available tools. Palliative Medicine, 36(8), 1186-1206. View this article in WRRO
- Systematic review of factors influencing decisions to limit treatment in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(2), 147-156.
- Experiences of surgical nurses in providing end-of-life care in an acute care setting: a qualitative study. British Journal of Nursing, 30(18), 1084-1089.
- ‘Palliative care education in nursing homes: a qualitative evaluation of telementoring. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
- Evaluating a palliative care education programme for domiciliary care workers. Nursing Older People, 35(2).
- Clinical decision-making at the end of life: a mixed-methods study. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 10(3), e26. View this article in WRRO
- Palliative care in the emergency department: A systematic literature qualitative review and thematic synthesis. Palliative Medicine, 32(9), 1443-1454. View this article in WRRO
- Change in Physiological Variables in the Last Two Weeks of Life: An Observational Study of Hospitalized Adults With Heart Failure. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management , 55(5), 1335-1340. View this article in WRRO
- Clinical decision making in the recognition of dying: a qualitative interview study. BMC Palliative Care, 16(1), ---.
- Palliative and supportive care in head and neck cancer: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 130(S2), S198-S207.
- Change in physiological variables in the last 2 weeks of life: An observational study of hospital in-patients with cancer. Palliative Medicine, 29(2), 120-127.
- How to appraise a systematic review. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 74(6), 331-334.
- How to appraise a randomized controlled trial. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 74(4), 218-222.
- How to appraise a qualitative study. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 74(5), 271-274.
- Recognizing dying in terminal illness. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 72(8), 446-450.
- Data-based research in UK palliative care: guidance, challenges, opportunities. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
- Implementation of the new internal medicine training (IMT) curriculum (UK): a new and novel palliative care communication course; CoMPaSs. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
- Addressing barriers to interprofessional working with homecare workers in community palliative care: Insights from a multi-site qualitative case study. Palliative Medicine.
- Patient perceptions of advance care planning within primary care: a systematic review of facilitators and barriers. BMC Palliative Care.
Conference proceedings
- PPT80 Management of oral candidiasis in palliative care patients: a systematic review. Poster Presentations (pp A38.3-A39)
- PPT38 Creative methodologies in global palliative care. Poster Presentations (pp A22.3-A23)
- PPT86 A service evaluation of NK1 receptor antagonist use for intractable nausea and vomiting in palliative care. Poster Presentations (pp A41.1-A41)
- 170 Patient preference is critical: a survey study exploring acceptability of sedation arising from pain relieving medication in palliative care. Poster Presentations (pp A72.2-A72)
- Measuring quality of dying, death and end-of-life care for children and young people: a scoping review of available tools. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 31 (pp S27-S27)
- P-62 Project ECHO™: developing a multi-professional virtual community of practice for paramedics in end of life care. Poster Presentations (pp A32.1-A32)
- 9 Enhancing community health outcomes (project ECHO): developing a community of practice for paramedics in end of life care (EOLC). Oral presentations (pp A3.3-A4)
- 86 Moving towards an enhanced community palliative support service (EnComPaSS): impact of using mobile technology to support delivery of community palliative care. Poster presentations (pp A40.2-A40)
Preprints
- Policy gaps regarding social homecare in the context of end-of-life; a policy document analysis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Experiences of delivering social homecare at end-of life: insights from a qualitative study drawing on multiple perspectives, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Experiences of homecare workers delivering social care at end‐of‐life: insights from a qualitative multiple perspective study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching interests
-
- Teaching medical students as a consultant in Palliative Medicine; both clinically and lecture-based
- Educational support and supervision to doctors in training; both foundation grade and specialist registrars
- Providing multi-professional learning to clinical and non-clinical staff at St Luke’s
- Supervision of Masters students as part of the ScHARR Masters in Clinical Research programme
- Professional activities and memberships
-
- Member and contributor to the Sheffield Palliative Care Research Network
- Member of the Association for Palliative Medicine (APM)
- Member of the Royal College of Physicians
- On the General Medical Council Specialist Register