Member Surveys

APM Member Survey – The APM and Marie Curie COVID-19 Survey

The Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (APM) and Marie Curie COVID-19 survey aims to explore the experiences of palliative care specialists during the pandemic to date and identify potential concerns for the coming winter. With your help, we want to gather a ‘snapshot’ of the challenges facing the specialist palliative care community and the people we support.

The survey will only take 5-10 minutes to complete, but could have a lasting impact on a very wide scale.  Please help us highlight the importance of the impact of specialist palliative care at this unprecedented time. We want to share the results with the wider public, in order to ensure your opinions count and have impact.

Closing date for this survey is 11th November 2020

APM Member Survey – Survey on Palliative Care and Motor Neurone Disease

From the early days at St Christopher’s Hospice in 1967 people with MND have received specialist palliative care.  The involvement was emphasised in the NICE Guideline NG42 “Motor neurone disease: assessment and management.  However, it is unclear how many specialist palliative care services do see patients with MND, and in particular at what stage in the disease progression – from diagnosis or only at the end of life. Anecdotally there are concerns that services are restricting their involvement to the last few weeks or months.

This survey aims to look at these issues and will follow up from the earlier study 20 years ago – 170 hospice services were involved with MND patients but for 48% this was only in the terminal stages. This survey also complements a larger survey across Europe on MND care – co-ordinated by the EAPC Reference Group on Neurology and the European Academy Scientific panel on palliative Care.

The survey may take 15 to 30 minutes to complete but we do hope that you will be able to take part. The aim is to receive one response from each service, so please do co-ordinate with colleagues to reduce duplication.

Closing date for this survey is 31st December 2020

APM Member Survey – Survey on Palliative Care Practitioners’ protective measures against workplace stressors

The APM has approved this survey to be circulated to its members. This will contribute to research into the protective measures adopted by palliative care practitioners against stressors in their workplaces. Research in this field indicates below-average levels of burnout in this specialty despite the distressing nature of the work. Findings from this present study may also provide insights into resilience factors that can contribute to other work settings involving significant stressors. In view of the potential significance of this research it is intended to request publication of the findings in an appropriate academic journal.

This survey will take 10 minutes to complete. Your participation would be much appreciated and will contribute valuable input to this topical issue.

Closing date for this survey is 30th January 2021