Projects

Projects across the UK

Delivering Choice Programme Projects. The first project for the Delivering Choice Programme was launched by Marie Curie Cancer Care in Lincolnshire in October 2004. This was followed by a project in Tayside (Scotland) in December 2005; Leeds in May 2006; and Barnet (north London) in March 2007.

In September 2007, we launched a project in south-east London, followed by Somerset in June 2008 and Northumberland, Tyne and Wear in March 2009.

In addition, the Delivering Choice Programme has a number of projects which are using the programme’s online toolkit. They include Primary Care Trusts in Tower Hamlets, Norfolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney, Worcestershire and Heart of Birmingham.

Most recently, NHS trusts in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Suffolk, West Essex, Barnsley and Westminster have also adopted the programme toolkit to start their local Delivering Choice projects.

Each project provides excellent opportunities to test and implement new ways of delivering service in a range of different environments: urban and rural settings, areas of deprivation and contrasting prosperity, and ethnically diverse communities.

In every project, we work in close partnership with a range of local service providers – including the NHS, social services as well as the voluntary and independent sectors – to deliver choice and the best possible palliative care services to patients and carers.

Click on the locations below to find out more about our different projects.

Projects using our online toolkit
Tower Hamlets, Norfolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney, Worcestershire and Heart of Birmingham, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Suffolk, West Essex, Barnsley and Westminster.

The Northumberland, Tyne and Wear project The project covers the entire Northumberland, Tyne and Wear area, with a population of 1.5 million people in both rural and urban settings.
The Somerset project Somerset has a large ageing population, a higher than average number of care homes and other challenges due to the area’s rural landscape. The project covers Somerset and North Somerset, with a population of 700,000 people.
The south-east London project South-east London is one of the largest projects in the Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme. The project covers a population of 1.5 million people in the boroughs of Greenwich, Bromley, Bexley, Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark.
The Barnet project Barnet is the programme’s first project in London, and the first to develop a commissioning framework for palliative and end of life care.
The Leeds project Leeds is the third largest city in England with an ethnically diverse population of 780,000 people and large areas of deprivation.
The Tayside project The programme’s first project in Scotland, Tayside provides a challenging mix of rural and urban, affluent and deprived areas, to test models of service delivery.
The Lincolnshire project The Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme’s first project was launched in Lincolnshire in October 2004, providing an important opportunity to plan and develop high quality palliative care in a complex, rural setting.