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Professor Richard Harding, Herbert Dunhill Professor of Palliative Care & Rehabilitation at King's College, London.

Professor Harding discusses the role of palliative and supportive care in optimising the well-being of patients and their families when living with a life-limiting illness. Palliative care is an important part of care that is included alongside treatments.

Research shows that palliative care can improve the quality of life and help patients and families feel more satisfied with the treatments they receive. Palliative care may start soon after learning about a cancer diagnosis and may continue throughout treatment and recovery.

Professor Harding also talks about the patient centred approach taken when a disease is no longer responding to curative treatment and how this approach encompasses physical, psychological, financial, social and spiritual aspects.