Palliative Care Award 2022

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Introduction

The Irish Cancer Society Palliative Care Award 2022, aims to fund an impactful research project in palliative care to support and enhance the quality of life of people living with life limiting cancer. The award will be open to clinicians, nurses, allied health care professionals and scientists coming from a field relevant to palliative care of cancer patients. The award intends to feed into our goal to improve care, quality and outcome of cancer patients by enhancing knowledge and expertise in palliative care.

The purpose of the award is to fund an impactful research project in palliative care to support and enhance the quality of life of people living with life limiting cancer. The proposals should aim to:

• Improve the quality of care for people with life limiting cancer
• Provide research evidence to inform policy and improve practice
• Enhance clinical and research competence in palliative care for people living with cancer
• Build research capability and capacity in palliative care for people living with cancer

Funding and Duration

The Palliative Care Award 2022 will provide funding of up to €50,000. The estimated project timeline must be between 12-18 months.

Submission and key dates

Applications must be completed and submitted through the Irish Cancer Society Gateway Grant Tracker online system. In order to submit an online application, you are required to register at the following address: https://grants.cancer.ie

Deadline for applications: 15.00 GMT Thursday 18th August 2022.

Please note: that the above dates are provisional subject to change at the discretion of the Irish Cancer Society.