Palliative Care

Scholarship opportunity now available with the Commonwealth Shared Scholarships Scheme (CSSS). 2 awards available to support students from eligible low and middle income Commonwealth countries to study the Palliative Care programme at King's College London. To find out more please visit: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/funding/commonwealth-shared-scholarship-scheme-csss

Our Palliative Care programme will give you the skills to critically appraise research and evidence on palliative care, conduct high quality research, improve clinical practice and develop services across the world. You will have world-class teaching at one of the strongest centres of palliative care research in the world and the only purpose-built institute for palliative care.

Key benefits

Our course has a national and international reputation which attracts students from all over the world

Strongly focused on evidence and an understanding how to conduct research in palliative care and related areas

Course based at the Cicely Saunders Institute, a WHO Collaborating Centre for palliative care and rehabilitation that is at the heart of national and international research and academic-clinical collaborations

Our teaching staff are academics, practitioners, policy makers, and global leaders in palliative care

Our MSc is delivered with St Christopher’s Hospice, which provides skilled and compassionate palliative care of the highest quality.