Dame Cicely Saunders, founder trustee of Cicely Saunders International, worked actively for the creation of a centre of excellence housing research, education including palliative care courses, information provision and clinical care. 

The mission of the Intitute established in her name is to enable research to quickly feed into care and practice - improving palliative care and enabling people to live better, with dignity and the least possible suffering.

The Institute aims is to be a centre of excellence comprising

Research

Education

Information provision

Clinical care