Palliative care Outcome Scale (POS)

About us

The POS development team is based in the UK and works in collaboration with POS users around the world to improve POS and help advance measurement in palliative care. In its first year the website had over 251,000 hits and 10,102 visitors. Also 1,274 individuals, groups or organisations from 74 different countries registered as POS users. By 2021 we had 15700 registered users from over 150 countries.

POS is a copyrighted instrument and while it is freely available we ask that you contact us to discuss research and any adaptations that you may wish to make. POS is constantly being improved in line with new research findings and in collaboration with others. We welcome contributions from patients and their carers and also ideas for training and seminars.

POS development team

	Professor Irene J Higginson Professor of Palliative Care and Policy King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Professor Richard Harding Herbert Dunhill Professor of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Dr Mevhibe B Hocaoglu Research Associate King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Hamid Benalia Research Associate and MSc Coordinator King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Professor Fliss Murtagh Visiting Professor and Consultant in Palliative Medicine King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Professor Claudia Bausewein Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Bausewein Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Palliativmedizin Klinikum der Universität München Campus Großhadern
	Dr Christina Ramsenthaler ZHAW School of Health Sciences Institute of Nursing Zurich, Switzerland
	Bárbara Antunes Research Fellow Centro de Estudos e Investigação em Saúde da Universidade de Coimbra (CEISUC) Visiting Research Associate King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	POS web support King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Dr Mendy Dzingina Lecturer in Palliative Care King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Dr Clare Ellis-Smith Lecturer in Palliative Care & MSc Palliative Care Director King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Mary Abboah-Offei Research Student King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Dr Deokhee Yi Health Economist King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Rachel Cripps Research Projects & Coordination Assistant King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Dr Debbie Braybrook Research Associate, C-POS King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Lucy Coombes PhD Student, C-POS King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Daney Harðardóttir Research Assistant, C-POS King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
	Bella Millett Research Administrator King's College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation

POS supporters and collaborators