Palliative Care and The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

The Potential Impact of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on the Professional Identity of Palliative Care Staff

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT07427550

Enrollment

Registered

2026-02-23

Start date

2026-03-01

Completion date

2027-05-01

Last updated

2026-02-23

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Conditions

Assisted Dying, Palliative Care

Brief summary

The current study aims to investigate the potential impact of the proposed Assisted Dying (Terminally Ill Adults (2024) Bill on Palliative care workers. Palliative care professionals across the Humber Health Partnership will be interviewed using semi-structured interview questions, with the intention of exploring the way they make sense of the potential implementation of the bill, particularly in relation to their professional identity. The research will be carried out in line with guidance for Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, Flowers & Larkin, 2021), a research methodology which aims to explore how people make sense of their experience, often in response to a particular event. It is hoped that the study will contribute to the ongoing discussions regarding how the bill should be implemented and offer potential insights into ways that hospitals may best support staff during the passing of the bill into law. The study will be sponsored by Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust (HUTH).

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Palliative care staff, including Palliative nurses, Doctors and Consultants. * Registered with the appropriate professional registration body * Must have been in qualified position and working in palliative care for at least 6 months * Must have worked with palliative patients in the last three months * Fluency in English

Exclusion criteria

* No direct contact with patients * Must be in a directly caring role within the team (does not include administrative or housekeeping staff).

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Experiential themes	Taken at the point of interview, two weeks after recruitment.	Thematic representations of participant's experiential accounts.

Contacts

CONTACTDr Matthew Morning, PDCounsPsy

matthew.morning1@nhs.net01482461060

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORDr Matthew Morning, PDCounsPsych

Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust

Outcome results