Dr
Paul
Taylor

MB ChB, PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

St Luke’s Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine

Dr Paul Taylor
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P.M.Taylor@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0840
Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Dr Paul Taylor
School of Medicine and Population Health

Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street

Sheffield

S1 4DA

Profile

I am a Palliative Medicine physician working at St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield, having 12 years of consultant experience.  During specialist training, I completed a PhD in Health Sciences at Hull and York Medical School, which was awarded in 2012.

I moved to Sheffield in 2017 as a Senior Clinical Lecturer, to develop my own research interests and to lead the research strategy at St Luke’s Hospice.  I divide my work between St Luke’s and the University of Sheffield, with additional support to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals when needed.

We have now built an academic team at St Luke’s, and are supporting our clinical workforce to develop their research and educational interests through the Wilkes Institute.

Research interests

My research interests relate to palliative and end-of-life care, and include use of routine data, supporting social care delivery and interventional studies in the palliative care context.

I have collaborated with researchers nationally to support St Luke’s involvement with grant funded research, including the current NIHR-funded DAMPEN (£2.5m) project and the recently completed SUPPORTED (£740k) project, and continue to support the Yorkshire Cancer Research funded RESOLVE study (£1.3m).

In addition to developing my own ambitions, I am Head of Research at the St Luke’s Wilkes Institute; I have worked with St Luke’s on developing their existing research portfolio, including recruiting to the multi-centre CHELSEA II trial, EnComPaSS and project ECHO. I have also supported post-graduate students at St Luke’s and SCHARR to complete their research and bring their work to publication.

In collaboration with colleagues at ScHARR, I am supervising an NIHR doctoral fellow to undertake her PhD exploring the role of rehabilitative palliative care, and have previously undertaken research into emergency department use in palliative care patients.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Forward C, Bravington A, Bayley Z, Elliott-Button H, Krygier J, White C, Bothma J, Begum S, Hussain J, Johnson MJ , Moss C et al (2026) . Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026(1).
  • White C, Forward C, Bayley Z, Elliott-Button H, Krygier J, Bravington A, Begum S, Bothma J, Hussain J, Johnson MJ , Moss C et al (2026) . Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026.
  • Manson J, Taylor P, Mawson S & O’Cathain A (2026) . BMC Palliative Care, 25(100).
  • Bayley Z, Forward C, Elliott-Button H, Krygier J, White C, Pearson M, Walker L, Moss C, Hussain J, Taylor P , Wray J et al (2025) . Research Involvement and Engagement.
  • Boland EG, Khamis A, Tay KT, Chater K, Taylor P, Landon A, Ross J & Murtagh FEM (2025) . Supportive Care in Cancer, 33(10).
  • Manson J, Taylor P, Mawson S, Bayly J, Keen C, Gath J, Green T, Anderson F, Smith R & O’Cathain A (2025) . Palliative Medicine, 39(7), 734-749.
  • Burdon J, Fingas S, Parry R, Pitsillides C & Taylor P (2025) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 15(2), 262-265.
  • Joddrell P, Manson J, Kyeremateng S, Pilkington G, Ariss S, Lowrie K, McTague L & Taylor PM (2024) . Health Informatics Journal, 30(4).
  • Abbey E, Ali M, Cooper M, Taylor P & Mayland CR (2024) . Palliative Medicine, 38(9), 923-934.
  • Forward C, Bayley Z, Walker L, Krygier J, White C, Mwaba K, Elliott-button H, Taylor P & Johnson MJ (2024) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 14(e3), e2330-e2340.
  • Bayley Z, Bothma J, Bravington A, Forward C, Hussain J, Manthorpe J, Pearson M, Roberts H, Taylor P, Walker L , White C et al (2024) . PLOS ONE, 19(2), e0298925-e0298925.
  • Taylor P, Stone T, Simpson R, Kyeremateng S & Mason S (2024) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 14(e1), e476-e479.
  • Ariss SMB, Taylor P, Fitzsimmons D, Kyeremateng S & Mawson S (2024) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 14(e1).
  • Bayley Z, Bothma J, Bravington A, Forward C, Hussain J, Manthorpe J, Pearson M, Roberts H, Taylor P, Walker L , White C et al (2023) . PLOS ONE, 18(12).
  • Lee GC, Kyeremateng S, Taylor P, Jones C, Hammond P & McTague L (2023) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 13(2), 247-254.
  • Hodge A, Manson J, McTague L, Kyeremateng S & Taylor P (2022) . British Paramedic Journal, 7(3), 51-58.
  • Mayland C, Sunderland KA, Cooper M, Taylor P, Powell PA, Zeigler L, Cox V, Gilman C, Turner N, Flemming K & Fraser LK (2022) . Palliative Medicine, 36(8), 1186-1206.
  • Walzl N, Sammy IA, Taylor PM, Smith JE & Lowe DJ (2022) . Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(2), 147-156.
  • Limbu T & Taylor PM (2021) . British Journal of Nursing, 30(18), 1084-1089.
  • Manson J, Gardiner C, Taylor P, Ghasemi L, Westerdale-Shaw E, Sutton L & Cawley H (2021) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
  • Manson J, Ghasemi L, Westerdale E, Taylor P, Kyeremateng S & McTague L (2020) . Nursing Older People, 35(2).
  • Taylor P, Johnson MJ & Dowding DW (2020) . BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 10(3), e26.
  • Cooper E, Hutchinson A, Sheikh Z, Taylor P, Townend W & Johnson MJ (2018) . Palliative Medicine, 32(9), 1443-1454.
  • Taylor P, Crouch S, Howell DA, Dowding DW & Johnson MJ (2018) . Journal of Pain and Symptom Management , 55(5), 1335-1340.
  • Taylor P, Dowding D & Johnson M (2017) . BMC Palliative Care, 16(1), ---.
  • Cocks H, Ah-See K, Capel M & Taylor P (2016) . The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 130(S2), S198-S207.
  • Taylor P, Crouch S, Howell DA, Dowding DW & Johnson MJ (2015) . Palliative Medicine, 29(2), 120-127.
  • Taylor P, Hussain JA & Gadoud A (2013) . British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 74(6), 331-334.
  • Hussain JA, Gadoud A & Taylor P (2013) . British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 74(4), 218-222.
  • Gadoud A, Taylor P & Hussain JA (2013) . British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 74(5), 271-274.
  • Taylor PM & Johnson M (2011) . British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 72(8), 446-450.
  • Taylor P, Bishop K, Davies JM & Murtagh F () . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
  • Lee GC, Jones C, Hammond P, Kyeremateng S & Taylor P () . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
  • Bayley Z, Forward C, White C, Elliott-Button H, Krygier J, Walker L, Pearson M, Hussain J, Taylor P, Wray J , Roberts H et al () . Palliative Medicine.
  • Abbey E, Katy S, Cooper M, Taylor P & Mayland C () Patient perceptions of advance care planning within primary care: a systematic review of facilitators and barriers. BMC Palliative Care.

Conference proceedings

  • Turner B, Nicholson-Lailey A, Muscroft A, Fingas S, Huvenne C & Taylor P (2026) . Poster Presentations (pp A38.3-A39)
  • Tuck C, Aeppli J, Taylor P & Cooper R (2026) . Poster Presentations (pp A22.3-A23)
  • Foster C, Muscroft A & Taylor P (2026) . Poster Presentations (pp A41.1-A41)
  • Burdon J, Taylor P, Fingas S, Parry R & Pitsillides C (2025) . Poster Presentations (pp A72.2-A72)
  • Powell P, Cooper M, Taylor P, Taylor P, Zeigler L, Cox V, Gilman C, Turner N, Flemming K, Fraser L & Mayland C (2022) Measuring quality of dying, death and end-of-life care for children and young people: a scoping review of available tools. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 31 (pp S27-S27)
  • Hodge A, McTague L, Manson J & Taylor P (2019) . Poster Presentations (pp A32.1-A32)
  • McTague L, Hodge A, Williams C, Taylor P & Kyeremateng S (2019) . Oral presentations (pp A3.3-A4)
  • Taylor P, Mawson S & Ariss S (2019) . Poster presentations (pp A40.2-A40)

Preprints

  • Elliott-Button HL, Mwaba K, Bayley Z, Bothma J, Forward C, Hussain J, Krygier J, Pearson M, Taylor P, White C , Wray J et al (2025) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • White C, Forward C, Bayley Z, Elliott-Button H, Krygier J, Bravington A, Begum S, Bothma J, Hussain J, Johnson M , Moss C et al (2025) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Teaching interests
  • Teaching medical students as a consultant in Palliative Medicine; both clinically and lecture-based
  • Educational support and supervision to doctors in training; both foundation grade and specialist registrars
  • Providing multi-professional learning to clinical and non-clinical staff at St Luke’s
  • Supervision of Masters students as part of the ScHARR Masters in Clinical Research programme
Professional activities and memberships
  • Member and contributor to the Sheffield Palliative Care Research Network
  • Member of the Association for Palliative Medicine (APM)
  • Member of the Royal College of Physicians
  • On the General Medical Council Specialist Register