Katrien Moens is a Marie Curie PhD Training Fellow in EUROIMPACT and her research aims to describe and compare quality of palliative care for non-cancer patients in different European countries. More specifically, Katrien will study different aspects of use and accessibility of palliative care , symptom prevalence, outcomes and clusters in different conditions, treatments received at the end of life, and quality of care and dying in terms of comfort, symptom distress, palliative problems etc. These domains have been identified as important domains to measure quality of palliative care. Non-cancer patients include patients with COPD, chronic heart failure or other life-threatening diseases. There is data from past and ongoing retrospective and prospective studies, using common measures and assessment e.g. data using the Palliative Outcome Scale, GP networks in Europe, death certificates studies, data from the interrRAI Long Term Care Facility and studies in long-term care settings. Katrien works at King’s College London, London, UK and will travel to the End-of-Life Care Research Group in Brussels, Belgium for 6 months.