Recruitment
People referred from oncology or surgical multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings
to the palliative care service were sequentially screened by the research team
alongside existing outpatient and day therapy attendees. People were screened at
any stage of their involvement with specialist palliative care services. They
were informed about the study by their usual palliative care clinician. To
recruit the target of 40 participants the study was planned to run for
2 years.