Max Watson is Director of Project ECHO at Hospice UK in London, former Medical Director of Northern Ireland Hospice, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queens University Belfast. Max is an author and editor with OUP including the End of Life Care series. His research interests include generalist palliative care education, cancer cachexia, dementia care at the end of life, and the use of bedside ultrasound.
Trained in theology and medicine, Max worked in Nepal as a GP before palliative training in London and Belfast. He has developed a range of teaching programmes for generalists, including the European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care, used in the UK, India, Malta, Nepal and Kyrgystan.
Since 2014 he has been pioneering Project ECHO methodology as a means of democratising medical knowledge, tele-mentoring and building communities of practice.
Clinically, Max currently provides a Palliative Medicine Liaison service to acute hospitals in the Western Trust in Northern Ireland.

Rachel Campbell is a speciality trainee in palliative medicine at the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA), and was formerly was an ADEPT Fellow on the Clinical Leadership Fellow's Program.

Nandini Vallath is a clinical consultant and director of projects at the Trivandum Institute of Palliative Sciences in India. She was awarded the 2015 Cancer Aid Society Palliative Care Award for Excellence and Leadership in the SAARC region. Nandini collaborates with NGOs and government officials to develop policies to improve palliative care, and has helped develop modules for palliative care at undergratudate and professional levels.

Stephen Ward is a Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. In addition to providing a clinical pharmacy service in the Royal Victoria Hospital, he has also developed a medication safety programme for final year medical students. Stephen studied pharmacy in Queen's University Belfast before working as a hospital pharmacist in Uganda. Following this, he worked as a clinical pharmacist in the Belfast Trust and Northern Ireland Hospice. His research interests include medical education, palliative care and respiratory medicine.

Jo Wells is a Nurse Consultant at the Southern Adelaide Palliative Service in Australia, and was formerly a Support Services Co-ordinator at The Leukaemia Foundation, South Australia.

Winner of the Hospital Medicine BMA Book Award 2021

• 1: Ethical issues and the person in the patient


• 2: Communication in palliative care


• 3: Research in palliative care


• 4: Quality of life


• 5: Principles of drug use in palliative care


• 6: Oncology and palliative care


• 7: Palliative care and haematology


• 8: Pain management


• 9: Gastrointestinal symptoms


• 10: Respiratory symptoms


• 11: Genitourinary symptoms


• 12: Skin problems in palliative care


• 13: Neurological problems in advanced cancer


• 14: Palliation of head and neck cancer


• 15: Endocrine and metabolic complications of advanced cancer


• 16: Paediatrics


• 17: Heart failure


• 18: Renal failure


• 19: HIV and palliative care


• 20: Dementia and frailty


• 21: Palliative care in non-malignant neurological disease


• 22: Psychiatric symptoms in palliative care


• 23: Spiritual care


• 24: The contribution to palliative care of allied health professions


• 25: Complementary and alternative medicine


• 26: Population based end of life care


• 27: Hospital liaison


• 28: Palliative and end of life care for people with learning disabilities


• 29: Emergencies


• 30: Terminal phase


• 31: Bereavement


• 32: Self care for health professionals


• 33: Access to palliative care - international perspectives


• 34: Miscellaneous