Dr Polly Edmonds
Polly qualified from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London and was the first consultant appointed to the Palliative Care Team is high profile across the trust, advising on the management of over 4000 patients across the Denmark Hill and PRUH sites in 2018-19. In addition to her clinical commitments Polly is involved in specialist training locally and nationally. She is chair of the Palliative Medicine SAC and had led the work on behalf of the SAC to develop an updated curriculum in preparation for the changes anticipated with the implementation of the Shape of Training recommendations. From 2010-2019 she was a question writer and chair of the Standard Setting Group for the Specialty Certificate Examination and in 2020 joined the Exam Board. Between 2010 and 2019 Polly held senior management roles at King’s (assistant medical director, then clinical director for cancer and end of life care.)
Dr Sabrina Bajwah
Dr Sabrina Bajwah is a clinical senior Lecturer at King’s College London and an honorary consultant in palliative care. Dr Bajwah has been a member of the NICE Quality Standards Committee for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and has also been a member of the Emergency Oxygen Guideline Group for the British Thoracic Society and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis clinical and research advisory committees for the British Lung Foundation. She now works clinically within the palliative care team at King’s Health Partners, London and runs an interstitial lung disease palliative care clinic in the UK whilst continuing to drive forward respiratory palliative care research. Her other main area of research interest are different models of palliative care and has recently completed a Cochrane Review on the Effectiveness of Inpatient Palliative Care.
Session 3: Palliative care
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Dr Polly Edmonds
Chair, Palliative Medicine Specialist Advisory Committee, Royal College of Physicians
Dr Sabrina Bajwah
Clinical senior lecturer, King’s College London and honorary consultant in palliative care, King’s Health Partners
