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Personal profile
Areas of Expertise
Breathlessness, Person-Centred Care, Support Needs, Health Research, Informal Carers, Palliative Care
Biography
Morag has worked in health services research for over 30 years, predominantly in palliative and supportive care. She has worked for health authorities in London, and within the universities of London, Manchester, Cambridge and East Anglia (UEA). An early graduate nurse by background (King’s College London), she holds a Masters in Medical Sociology and PhD (University of London) on the definition and measurement of quality of life in older people. Research interests include person-centre care, breathlessness in advanced disease, palliative care, unpaid carers, older people, and methodology – particularly the development and testing of interventions and mixed methods.
At UEA she leads a research programme on improving care and support for patients and carers living with advanced disease, including the SNAP programme and Learning about Breathlessness programme:
- SNAP (the Support Needs Approach for Patients) has developed an intervention to enable person-centred care for people with chronic or progressive conditions, funded by Marie Curie: https://thesnap.org.uk
- Learning about Breathlessness (LaB) has developed a web-based educational intervention for unpaid carers of patients with breathlessness in advanced malignant and non-malignant disease: https://supporting-breathlessness.org.uk/ LaB2 was funded by an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit grant
These projects build on work conducted at University of Cambridge as a Senior Research Associate and NIHR Career Development Fellow, including the Living with Breathlessness Study and the LaB1 Study (first study in the Learning about Breathlessness programme). The Living with Breathlessness Study was a collaboration between Cambridge, King’s College London and RAND Europe on patient and carer need and care preferences in advanced COPD. She was also lead researcher on the RCT of the internationally-recognised Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service, developed following the MRC framework for complex interventions in collaboration with Dr Sara Booth (Addenbrooke’s Palliative Care Team) and colleagues.
Morag has collaborated and published with colleagues in Canada and Australia in the field of breathlessness in advanced disease and palliative care methodology. She is also deputy theme lead for NIHR ARC East of England’s Palliative and End of Life Care theme: https://arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/research-implementation/research-themes/term-palliative-and-end-life-care
In addition Morag has a teaching role, including co-leading an online post-registration module on Using Evidence to Lead and Advance Practice, and post-graduate supervision.
Follow this work on Twitter: @MoragCFarquhar | @SNAPstudyteam | @LaB2_Study
Education/Academic qualification
Bachelor of Science, King's College London
Doctor of Philosophy, Queen Mary University of London
Master in Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
Media Expertise
- Nursing and care
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Piloting a novel role to support informal carers: the Carer Support Nurse
Farquhar, M., Lindqvist, S., Wagner, A., Gardener, C. & Peryer, G.
25/07/22 → 24/09/23
Project: Research
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The clinical and cost effectiveness of internet-delivered self-help Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for family carers of people with dementia (iACT4CARERS): A randomised controlled trial with ethnically diverse family carers
Kishita, N., Farquhar, M., Khondoker, M., Hammond , M., Pond, M. & Turner, D.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/06/22 → 31/05/26
Project: Research
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Palliative and End of Life Care Theme –ARC
Farquhar, M., Barnes, S. & Gardener, C.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/10/19 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
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Involving carer advisors in evidence synthesis to improve carers’ mental health during end-of-life home care: co-production during Covid-19 remote working
Grande, G. E., Bayliss, K., Shield, T., Flynn, J., Rowland, C., Harris, D., Wearden, A., Farquhar, M., Panagioti, M., Hodkinson, A., Booth, M., Cotterill, D., Goodburn, L., Knipe, C. & Bee, P., 7 Feb 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Health and Social Care Delivery Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Occupational therapy interventions for adult informal carers and implications for intervention design, delivery and evaluation: A systematic review
Micklewright, K. & Farquhar, M., Feb 2023, In: British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 86, 2, p. 90-100 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Research Priority 3: ‘How can occupational therapists work more effectively with the family and carers of people who access services?’
Micklewright, K. & Farquhar, M., Jan 2023, In: British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 86, 1, p. 3-4 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Understanding what affects psychological morbidity in informal carers when providing care at home for patients at the end-of-life (EOL): a systematic qualitative evidence synthesis
Bayliss, K., Shield, T., Wearden, A., Flynn, J., Rowland, C., Bee, P., Farquhar, M., Harris, D., Hodkinson, A., Panagioti, M., Booth, M., Cotterill, D., Goodburn, L., Knipe, C. & Grande, G. E., 4 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Health and Social Care Delivery Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Advancing the management of respiratory problems
Farquhar, M. & Ekström, M., Dec 2022, In: Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care. 16, 4, p. 181-182 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Press/Media
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Informal carers need more support now than ever (May 2020)
4/05/20 → 6/05/20
2 items of Media coverage
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Elderly feel more in control of lives when they move to a care home earlier
6/09/19
1 item of Media coverage
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Elderly should consider residential care before a 'health crisis'
6/09/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: UEA Press Release
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New Tool Identifies Support Needs of COPD Patients, Helping to Make Care More Personal and Holistic
22/03/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Pioneering research to deliver person-centred care
7/03/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: UEA Press Release