Ollie Minton

University hospitals Sussex

Dr Ollie Minton is the clinical lead in palliative medicine based in Brighton. His role is to provide clinical leadership to the team which advises other members of the hospital on end of life care including their families and friends as well as ensure the wider cancer services from diagnosis onwards.

They are a research active team using PROMS and VR amongst other things and continually look at quality and service improvement and education of staff and undergraduate students of all healthcare disciplines.

They see a split of patients with and without cancer in a 50/50 split but see patients on need not diagnosis or prognosis – the over arching theme is patients who are treatable but not curable but they want to see people sooner than later when they can have the most impact.