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Lucy Coombes is a Researcher affiliated with the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation at King's College London. Her work focuses on pediatric palliative care, patient-centered outcomes, and healthcare quality improvement. She contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to good health and well-being. Her research integrates qualitative methods to explore patient and family perspectives in life-limiting conditions.
Key research areas include developing outcome measures (e.g., Children's Palliative Outcome Scale), analyzing barriers to palliative care access, and understanding how children linguistically frame their health experiences. Her interdisciplinary collaborations span clinical, policy, and academic domains.
Publications emphasize patient-centered approaches, with recent work exploring high-quality care definitions, cognitive testing of outcome tools, and language used by young patients. Her contributions advance both clinical practice and policy in pediatric palliative care.
