Dr Dan Munday

Dan Munday

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Associate Clinical Professor in Palliative Medicine

Honorary Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust and Associate Medical Director of the Myton Hospices. West Midlands (South) CLRN topic lead for Palliative Care

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Health Sciences
Room A-122
Medical School Building
Gibbet Hill Campus
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL 		Tel: 02476 575859
Email: D.Munday@warwick.ac.uk

 

RESEARCH PROFILE


His research interests include exploring the interface between Primary Care and Specialist Palliative Care, particularly regarding continuity and out of hours care and linking research to service development. He is also interested in methodologies for developing a palliative care evidence base, particularly the application of Complexity Theory, Critical Realism and Action Research in Palliative Care.

He is a member of the Science Committee of the Association for Palliative Medicine of the UK and Ireland, the NCRI Palliative Care Clinical Studies Group and the Macmillan Primary Palliative Care Research Collaborative. He is an editorial board member of BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care.

BACKGROUND


After qualifying in 1982, and completing general professional training in anaesthesia, he spent three years in Nepal (1988-91). Returning to the UK he entered general practice working as a GP principal for five years. From 1998 he has worked in Palliative Medicine, first as a Specialist Registrar and since 2002 as a Consultant in Coventry PCT and Myton Hospices Coventry and Warwickshire for which he was Medical Director from 2007 to 2009.

He was involved in the founding of the MSc Health Sciences (Palliative Care) at Warwick in 2002 and since 2003 has been co-director of the course.

He gained a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Warwick in 2007 for his thesis entitled "Exploring Complexity in Community Palliative Care: A Practitioner Based Approach to Research and Development."

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


  • Letter of Variation: CCAT & MacPACC salary support and project allowances from April 11- December 12, with - -, Funded by: Macmillan Cancer Support, Project Start Date: 01/04/2011 Project End Date: 31/12/2012

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Hubbard, G McLachlan, K Forbat, L Munday , D(2011) 'Recognition by family members that relatives with neurodegenerative disease are likely to die within a year: A meta-ethnography' Palliative Medicine (0269-2163)
  • Petrova M, Dale J, Munday D, Koistinen-Harris J, Agarwal, S Lall R,(2010) 'The role and impact of facilitators in primary care: findings from the implementation of the Gold Standards Framework for palliative care.' Family Practice: an international journal 27: 38 - 47 (0263-2136)
  • Munday, D., Petrova, M. and Dale, J.(2009) 'Exploring preferences for place of death with terminally ill patients: qualitative study of experiences of general practitioners and community nurses in England' British Medical Journal 339 b2391 (0959-535X) [article]
  • Dale, J., Petrova, M., Munday, D., Koistinen-Harris, J., Lall, R. and Thomas, K.(2009) 'A national facilitation project to improve primary palliative care: impact of the Gold Standards Framework on process and self-ratings of quality' Quality And Safety In Healthcare 18 (3), 174 - 180 (1475-3898) [article]
  • Kelt, S., Munday, D. and Dale, J.(2008) 'Patients' experience of receiving GSF-led primary palliative care' End of Life Care 2 (4), 47 - 53

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