Question reference: S5W-23771
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
- Date lodged: 13 June 2019
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 June 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to increase research into palliative and end of life care, and what funding it has allocated to this in each of the last three years.
Answer
The Scottish Government was a funding partner in the Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership (PeolcPSP), facilitated by the James Lind Alliance (JLA). The purpose of this partnership was to identify and publish the top 10 research questions or evidence uncertainties in palliative and end of life care. The final report was launched at the Palliative and End of Life Care Research Summit, hosted by Public Health England’s National End of Life Care Intelligence Network, and, NHS England on 15 January 2015 and can be accessed at http://www.lindalliance.org/PalliativeCare.asp
The Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office (CSO) provides funding to support health research in Scotland. The level of CSO funding that can be directly attributed to support research into palliative and end of life care each year from 2017 to 2019 is
2017 £181 K
2018 £148 K
2019 £86 K
The figures (rounded to the nearest thousand) combine: the funding committed to research projects and fellowships in these areas awarded in the given year and commitments to co-funded initiatives with medical research charities.