Palliative Care

Guest Writer
Mar 16, 2024
2 min read

Updated: Mar 20, 2024

Palliative care: two words that strike fear into most people. But are we thinking about palliative care all wrong? On this week's episode of Movers and Shakers, we're in the pub and discussing how to approach conversations about care that goes beyond the merely curative. The Movers and Shakers are joined by a palliative care consultant for this part of the discussion, and then a tip-top High Court judge to look at how you can make legal provisions to prepare yourself, and your family, for any incapacity.

Each week Rory Cellan-Jones guides us between the laughs and moans in the pub. To read Rory's summary of this week's episode click here.

Guest Biographies

Mrs Justice Theis DBE

Mrs Justice Theis DBE, was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1982 and took Silk in 2003. She was appointed a Recorder in 2000 and was approved to sit as a deputy High Court Judge.

From 2005 to 2010 she was head of Field Court Chambers and was Chair of the Family Law Bar Association in 2008 and 2009. In 2010 she was appointed to be a High Court Judge.

In 2011 the President of the Family Division appointed her a Family Division Liaison Judge on the South Eastern Circuit with responsibility for Kent, Surrey and Sussex and in 2017 for London and Thames Valley.

Since 2018 she has chaired the Family Procedure Rules Committee and the Family Justice Council and is the lead judge in relation to applications under the HFEA 2008.

Mrs Justice Theis was appointed as the Senior Family Liaison Judge for a four-year period from October 2018. This is in addition to her role as the Family Division Liaison Judge for London.

Dr Sabrina Bajwah

Dr Sabrina Bajwah is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation at King’s College London). Sabrina would describe herself as a British Pakistani Muslim who grew up in the North of England.

She now lives in West London and works clinically as a Palliative Care Consultant within the palliative care team at King’s College NHS Foundation Trust and the Interstitial Lung Disease team at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation trust serving an ethnically diverse community. Her research interests include different models of palliative care and racial inequality. She is a passionate egalitarian.