Professional background
Dr Sarah Yardley, BM PGCertClinEd MA PhD MRCP MAcadMEd.
Consultant in palliative medicine, Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Honorary clinical senior lecturer, Marie Curie palliative care research department, University College London.
THIS Institute post-doctoral fellow.
Sarah joined the Camden, Islington, UCLH & HCA palliative care service in 2014, predominantly working in the community team until September 2019 when she moved to the hospital team.
She is a clinical academic interested in how patients, families, carers, and healthcare professionals do the work of frontline day-to-day healthcare and make sense of their experiences; hospital-community and specialist-generalist interfaces in palliative care; and patient transitions between hospital and community care, including palliative care in emergency departments and acute medical units.
Her research seeks to understand and improve human-dependent healthcare such as the impact therapeutic and professional collegiate relationships have on current and future care.
Specialties
Research interests
- Health professional education
- Workplace learning
- Safety & healthcare improvement
- Sociocultural theory
- Qualiative methodology & methods
- Mixed methods for systematic reviews