NCRI 2017 | Palliative care Outcome Scale: a new tool to assess the use of palliative care in cancer patients

In this exciting interview, Irene Higginson, OBE, BMBS, PhD, FMedSci, FRCP, of King’s College London, London, UK, introduces the palliative care/patient care outcome scale (POS), which has been developed to identify the patients who will benefit from receiving palliative care earlier. This interview was held at the 2017 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Conference in Liverpool, UK.