Dr Catherine Millington-Sanders

Dr Catherine Millington-Sanders is the RCGP and Marie Curie National End of Life Care Clinical Champion, and Personalised Care Institute Clinical Director for Innovation and Accreditation. Catherine led the development of the RCGP and Marie Curie Daffodil Standards – UK General Practice Standards for Advanced Serious Illness, End of Life Care and Bereavement – providing a free, structured, evidence-based framework to help support GP teams to deliver  high quality, compassionate, safe and equitable care for people and those important to them in the last years of life.

Catherine is a practising GP, clinical commissioner and educationalist, with seven years’ experience as a specialty doctor in palliative medicine. She has led and contributed to multiple national and regional commissioning strategies and is passionate about improving quality of life, dignity and bereavement support for patients, families and caregivers.

Catherine is co-founder of the social enterprise Difficult Conversations and a former Commissioner on the UK Bereavement Commission. She is committed to empowering professionals with the skills, confidence and tools to support people in the last years of life and through bereavement.