Palliative and end-of-life care research funding: an analysis of current UK health research spending.

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care Pub Date : 2025-10-05 DOI:10.1136/spcare-2025-005584

Bethan Sheridan, Fliss Murtagh

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Objectives: Despite increasing demand for palliative and end-of-life care, the funding for research in this area has historically been low. Previous UK analyses in 2016 found that less than 0.3% of the funding for cancer research was directed towards palliative care research; current expenditure on palliative and end-of-life care research is unknown. We therefore sought to determine current UK expenditure on palliative and end-of-life care research.

Methods: Secondary analysis of publicly available research funding data-UK Health Research Analysis 2022, from the UK Clinical Research Classification System Health Research Classification System. This dataset details UK health research funding from all public sectors (including the governments of the four nations of the UK), charities, societies and professional bodies for the year 2022.

Results: Out of 18 023 research funding awards in total in 2022, we identified 136 relating to palliative and end-of-life care research. The total funding for palliative and end-of-life care research was £10.9 million, representing just 0.26% of the total £4.2 billion awarded.

Conclusions: Palliative and end-of-life care research continues to be one of the lowest-funded areas of healthcare research in the UK. More investment into palliative and end-of-life care research is urgently needed to advance evidence to meet the rising demand for palliative care.

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缓和和临终关怀研究经费：当前英国卫生研究支出的分析。

目的：尽管对姑息治疗和临终关怀的需求不断增加，但这一领域的研究资金一直很低。2016年英国之前的分析发现，用于癌症研究的资金中，只有不到0.3%用于姑息治疗研究；目前在姑息治疗和临终关怀研究方面的支出尚不清楚。因此，我们试图确定当前英国在姑息治疗和临终关怀研究上的支出。方法：对公开的研究经费数据进行二次分析——英国健康研究分析2022，来自英国临床研究分类系统健康研究分类系统。该数据集详细介绍了2022年英国所有公共部门（包括英国四个国家的政府）、慈善机构、学会和专业机构对英国卫生研究的资助。结果：在2022年总共18023项研究资助中，我们确定了136项与姑息治疗和临终关怀研究有关。缓和和临终关怀研究的总资金为1090万英镑，仅占42亿英镑总拨款的0.26%。结论：姑息治疗和临终关怀研究仍然是英国医疗保健研究中资金最少的领域之一。迫切需要对姑息治疗和临终关怀研究进行更多投资，以提供证据，以满足对姑息治疗日益增长的需求。

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BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

7.40%

发文量

170

期刊介绍： Published quarterly in print and continuously online, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care aims to connect many disciplines and specialties throughout the world by providing high quality, clinically relevant research, reviews, comment, information and news of international importance. We hold an inclusive view of supportive and palliative care research and we are able to call on expertise to critique the whole range of methodologies within the subject, including those working in transitional research, clinical trials, epidemiology, behavioural sciences, ethics and health service research. Articles with relevance to clinical practice and clinical service development will be considered for publication. In an international context, many different categories of clinician and healthcare workers do clinical work associated with palliative medicine, specialist or generalist palliative care, supportive care, psychosocial-oncology and end of life care. We wish to engage many specialties, not only those traditionally associated with supportive and palliative care. We hope to extend the readership to doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers and researchers in medical and surgical specialties, including but not limited to cardiology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, paediatrics, primary care, psychiatry, psychology, renal medicine, respiratory medicine.