Dr Sarah Mitchell

MB ChB FRCGP MSc PhD

Department of Oncology and Metabolism

Senior Clinical Fellow

s.j.mitchell@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9021

Room 226, Broomcross Building, Weston Park Hospital

Full contact details

Dr Sarah Mitchell
Department of Oncology and Metabolism
Room 226, Broomcross Building
Weston Park Hospital
Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2SJ

Profile

I am a GP at the White House Surgery in Sheffield, and joined the University of Sheffield in 2020 as a Yorkshire Cancer Research Connects Senior Research Fellow. Prior to that I was an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick and GP in Birmingham. My PhD used realist methods to examine healthcare service design for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families.

My motivation for research is grounded in my clinical experiences as a GP, providing palliative and end of life care to some of the most vulnerable patients in the community with complex and unpredictable health conditions. My research aims to focus on the patient and family experience, and produce recommendations that are practice and policy relevant. Patient and public involvement is integral to all aspects of my research, including research design and dissemination.

Qualifications

MBChB (University of Sheffield 2001)
Certificate of Completion of Training: General Practice (Sheffield VTS 2007)
MSc Palliative Medicine (Cardiff University, 2012, Distinction)
PhD (University of Warwick, 2020)

Research interests

Primary palliative care
Identification and management of supportive and palliative care needs in the community
Palliative care for children and young people
Medical ethics
Cancer, complexity and multi-morbidity
Improving cancer care in primary care
Health service design and the translation of policy into practice

Publications

Journal articles

Mitchell S, Maynard V, Lyons V, Jones N & Gardiner C (2020) The role and response of primary healthcare services in the delivery of palliative care in epidemics and pandemics : a rapid review to inform practice and service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Palliative Medicine. View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S, Hillman S, Rapley D, Gray SDP & Dale J (2020) GP home visits: essential patient care or disposable relic?. British Journal of General Practice, 70(695), 306-307.
Jarvis S, Parslow RC, Hewitt C, Mitchell S & Fraser LK (2020) GPs’ role in caring for children and young people with life-limiting conditions: a retrospective cohort study. British Journal of General Practice, 70(693), e221-e229. View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S, Bennett K, Morris A, Slowther A-M, Coad J & Dale J (2020) Achieving beneficial outcomes for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions receiving palliative care and their families: A realist review. Palliative Medicine, 34(3), 387-402. View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S, Slowther A-M, Coad J & Dale J (2020) The journey through care: study protocol for a longitudinal qualitative interview study to investigate the healthcare experiences and preferences of children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families in the West Midlands, UK. BMJ Open, 8(1). View this article in WRRO
Harris N, Blackburn M, Noyes J, Aldridge J, Lapwood S, Dunbar H, Price J, Mitchell S, Chambers L & Bluebond‐Langner M (2019) Undertaking doctoral research with children and young people with life‐limiting or life‐threatening conditions. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(12), 3183-3185. View this article in WRRO
Mitchell SJ, Slowther A-M, Coad J, Akhtar S, Hyde E, Khan D & Dale J (2019) Ethics and patient and public involvement with children and young people. Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition, 104(4), 195-200. View this article in WRRO
Murray SA, Mitchell S, Boyd K & Moine S (2019) Palliative care : training the primary care workforce is more important than rebranding. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 2019(365). View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S, Spry JL, Hill E, Coad J, Dale J & Plunkett A (2019) Parental experiences of end of life care decision-making for children with life-limiting conditions in the paediatric intensive care unit: a qualitative interview study. BMJ Open, 9(5). View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S, Tan A, Moine S, Dale J & Murray SA (2019) Primary palliative care needs urgent attention. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 2019(365). View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S & Baldock A (2018) The undertakers: Learning from an unusual work experience placement. InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice, 11(8), 465-466. View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S, Morris A, Bennett K, Sajid L & Dale J (2017) Specialist paediatric palliative care services: what are the benefits?. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 102(10), 923-929. View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S & Dale J (2017) Palliative care from diagnosis for all ages including children and young people. BMJ, 2017(357). View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S, Loew J, Millington-Sanders C & Dale J (2016) Providing end-of-life care in general practice : findings of a national GP questionnaire survey. British Journal of General Practice, 66(650), e647-e653. View this article in WRRO
Mitchell S & Dale J (2015) Advance Care Planning in palliative care: A qualitative investigation into the perspective of Paediatric Intensive Care Unit staff. Palliative Medicine, 29(4), 371-379.
Mitchell S, Plunkett A & Dale J (2014) Use of formal advance care planning documents: a national survey of UK Paediatric Intensive Care Units. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 99(4), 327-330.
Mitchell SJ & Dale J () Advance care planning is everybody’s business. BMJ, f6748-f6748. View this article in WRRO

Chapters

Loew J, Mitchell S, Weetman K, Millington-Sanders C & Dale J (2020) Applying corpus-based discourse analysis to enhance understanding of barriers to palliative and end of life care provision in general practice In Demjen Z (Ed.), Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts (pp. 321-348). London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Theses / Dissertations

Mitchell S (2020) The Journey through Care. Palliative Care for children and young people, and their families: What? When? How? A Realist Inquiry. View this article in WRRO

Teaching interests

Primary palliative care
Medical ethics

Professional activities

Macmillan GP and Clinical Director for End of Life Care, Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group
GP representative, Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine Executive Committee
Member of NHS England Paediatric Medicine Clinical Reference Group
Member of the Yorkshire and Humber Children’s Palliative Care Network
Convenor of the Society of Academic Primary Care Palliative Care Special Interest Group