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Staff Profile

Dr Donna Wakefield

Honorary Research Fellow & Consultant in Palliative Medicine

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  • Address: Health Inequalities Team,
    Population Health Sciences Institute
    Level 5, Ridley 1,
    缅北禁地

    Specialist Palliative Care team,
    University Hospital North Tees,
    Hardwick Road,
    Stockton

Background


Donna Wakefield has worked as a doctor in the NHS since graduating from Aberdeen Medical School in 2008. She has been a Consultant in Palliative Medicine since 2019 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.


After being awarded multiple sources of research funding (including Mesothelioma UK, NHS England, Hospice UK, NIHR) she divided her time between clinical work and research within a research naive department and hospice. She gained experience of being PI/CI on multiple studies and was awarded a Distinction for her Masters in Clinical Research from 缅北禁地 in 2021; with her Masters research receiving an award from The Royal Society of Medicine.


Donna was awarded a competitive NIHR Doctoral Fellowship in 2023 and is undertaking her PhD research (Jan 2024- Dec 2027) on inequalities in access to palliative care for people with advanced lung disease (lung cancer, mesothelioma, COPD, ILD). Her Fellowship supervisors are Professor Jonathan Koffman & Professor Fliss Murtagh (Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School), Professor Clare Bambra (缅北禁地) and Dr Joanna Davies (Cicely Saunders Institute, Kings College London).


After growing up in a socio-economically deprived area of the North-East (South Shields), her main research interest is socio-economic inequities/inequalities, and she has presented at national and international conferences on this topic. She is particularly interested in improving care for people with mesothelioma in socio-economically deprived areas and teaches widely on this topic. She is part of the national mesothelioma expert group, is involved in multiple research projects and publications on this topic and recently joined the north of England's first regional mesothelioma MDT.


Donna is enthusiastic about improving palliative care research and was previously Vice-Chair of the national Palliative Care Research Society (PCRS). She is an elected member of the national Association of Palliative Medicine (APM) Research & Ethics Committee and is part of several groups and projects about mapping and improving the palliative care research workforce.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Dismore L, Frew K, Wakefield D, Bryan C, Swainston K. . Palliative Care and Social Practice 2025, 19, 1-9.
    • Wakefield D, Ward T, Edge H, Mayland CR, Gardiner C. . Palliative Medicine 2025, 39(2), 286-297.
    • Wakefield D, Booth Z, Fay M, Breckons M. . Palliative Care and Social Practice 2025, Epub ahead of print.
    • Rosa W, Wakefield D, Scott H, Braybrook D, Harding R, Bristowe K. . Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2025, 68(3), e183-e189.
    • Wakefield D, Forster C, Christie J. . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2025, Epub ahead of print.
    • Dewhurst F, Turner R, Barrett L, Westhead E, Wakefield D, Hanratty B. . OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 2025, epub ahead of print.
    • Finucane A, Canny A, Mair A, Harrop E, Selman LE, Swash B, Wakefield D, Gillanders D. . Palliative Medicine 2025, 39(1), 31-52.
    • Gillanders D, Canny A, Harrop E, Hulbert-Williams N, Neilson A, Selman L, Spiller J, Swash B, Buckle P, Wakefield D, Burnett T, Reed N, Finucane A. . Progress in Palliative Care 2025, 33(5), 260-268.
    • Harrop E, Barawi K, Mazzaschi F, Torrens-Burton A, Sutton E, Gilbert E, Wakefield D, Goss S, Seddon K, Longo M, Selman LE. . Social Science & Medicine 2025, 384, 118518.
    • Wakefield D, Ta Y, Dewhurst F, Hussain J, Chamberlain C, Etkind S. . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2024, 14(1), 76-86.
    • Wakefield D, Dewhurst F, Koffman J, Chamberlain C. . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2024, 14(e3), e2452-e2456.
    • Dewhurst F, Howorth K, Billett H, Brown J, Charles M, Fleming E, Gouldthorpe C, Huggin A, Kavanagh E, Kiltie R, Robinson L, Rowley G, Simkiss L, Wakefield D, Woods E, Churm D, Warmsley R, Waterfield K. . BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care 2024, 14(3), 358-364.
    • Abbey E, Cooper M, Foridi M, Frew K, Mayland C, Palmer J, Parry R, Semple C, Stewart K, Wakefield D. . The Journal of Laryngology & Otology 2024, 138.
    • Taylor N, Christie J, Wakefield D. . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2024, 14(e1), e577-e579.
    • Gouldthorpe C, Quinton R, Wakefield D. . BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care 2024, 14(e2), e1762-e1764.
    • Wakefield D, McEvoy M, Blackburn-Daniels S, Campbell S. . Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2023, 53(1), 81-82.
    • Selman LE, Sutton E, Mirra RM, Stone T, Gilbert E, Rolston Y, Murray K, Longo M, Seddon K, Penny A, Mayland CR, Wakefield D, Byrne A, Harrop E. . Palliative Medicine 2023, 37(4), 586-601.
    • Crabtree A, Kavanagh E, Chamberlain C, Wakefield D, Daniel R, Schofield G, Star A, Yardley S, Whyte I, Chu C, Billett H, Noble S. . Thrombosis Research 2023, 223, 95-101.
    • Wakefield D, Aujayeb A. . International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2023, 29(7), 334-342.
    • Wakefield D, Etkind SN, Bemand-Qureshi L, Sutherland A, Koffman J, Dewhurst F, Noble S, Chamberlain C. . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2022, 14(e3), e3024-e3032.
    • Selman LE, Farnell DJJ, Longo M, Goss S, Seddon K, Torrens-Burton A, Mayland CR, Wakefield D, Johnston B, Byrne A, Harrop E. . Palliative Medicine 2022, 36(4), 717-729.
    • Dewhurst F, Wakefield D, Elverson J, Mcconnell R, Bryan C, Spriggs H, Atkinson K, Frew K. . BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care 2022, epub ahead of print.
    • Wakefield D. . Palliative Medicine 2022, 37(4), 652-656.
    • Aujayeb A, Wakefield D. . Journal of Respiration 2021, 1(2), 98-104.
    • Wakefield D. . Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care 2021, 15(3), 174-179.
    • Wakefield, D, Hanson, SR. Requested withdrawal of gastrostomy feeding in motor neurone disease. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2020, 13.
    • Wakefield, D, Fleming, E, Howorth, K, Waterfield, K, Kavanagh, E, Billett, H, Kiltie, R, Robinson, L, Rowley, G, Brown, J, Woods, E, Dewhurst, F. Inequalities in awareness and availability of bereavement services in north-east England. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2020, 14, e384-e388.
    • Waterfield, K, Weiand, D, Dewhurst, F, Kiltie, R, Pickard, J, Karandikar, U, MacCormick, F, Vidrine, J, Rowley, G, Coulter, P, Lee, M, Frew, K. A qualitative study of nursing staff experiences of delirium in the hospice setting. International journal of palliative nursing 2018, 24(11).
    • Porteous, A, Dewhurst, F, Gray, W, Coulter, P, Karandikar, K, Kiltie, R, Lowery, L, MacCormick, F, Paxton,A, Pickard, J, Rowley, G, Vidrine, J, Walmsley, R, Waterfield, K, Weiand, D, Grogan, E. Screening for delirium in specialist palliative care inpatient units: perceptions and outcomes. International journal of palliative nursing 2016, 22, 444-447.

  • Book Chapters

    • Wakefield D. . In: Jonathan Pickard & Jonathan Hindmarsh, ed. Oxford Case Histories in Palliative Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, pp.35-43.
    • Wakefield D, Smithers R, Bibby A. . In: Tod A; Taylor B; Gardiner C; Darlison L, ed. Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences and Care Needs of People with Mesothelioma and their Families. London: Taylor & Francis, 2025. In Press.
    • Wakefield D. . In: Jonathan Pickard & Jonathan Hindmarsh, ed. Oxford Case Histories in Palliative Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, pp.103-109.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Dehpour T, Wakefield D, Hussain J, Koffman J. Patient-centred education interventions for assessing and managing cancer-related pain relevant to patients from ethnic minority communities: A mixed-method systematic review. In: The 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. 2025, Helsinki, Finland.
    • Okamoto I, Jin A, Etkind S, McConnell T, Wakefield D, Bryne A, Murtagh F, Finucane A. Mapping the palliative and end-of-life care research workforce in the UK: A mixed-method study. In: The 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. 2025, Helsinki, Finland.
    • Wakefield D, Dehpour T, Bambra C, Davies J, Murtagh F, Koffman J. Is there an inverse palliative care law? Socio-economic inequalities in access, receipt and experience of palliative care for people with advanced lung disease: A mixed-methods systematic review. In: The 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. 2025, Helsinki, Finland: Sage.

  • Editorial

    • Wakefield D, Kane CEC, Chidiac C, Braybrook D, Harding R. . Palliative Medicine 2021, 35(10), 1730-1732.

  • Letters

    • Aujayeb A, Wakefield D. . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2021, 11(3), 305.
    • Aujayeb A, Wakefield D. . Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2020, 77(11), 806-806.