Natalie Evans 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, Natalie will study different aspects of communication, end-of-life decision-making, and advance care planning, domains that 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 other than cancer. A number of retrospective and prospective data that have been or are being gathered across Europe are at the disposal of the researcher e.g. data from GP networks in Europe, the interrRAI Long Term Care Facility, the Liverpool Care Pathway, questionnaires from physicians concerning end-of-life decision-making. Natalie works at the VU University Medical Center and EMGO Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and will travel to travel to the National Cancer Research Institute in Genoa, Italy.