1. Current Status, Position

Jo Hayes is a Consultant in palliative medicine, Medical Director of the Marie Curie Hospice, Penarth and Course Tutor for the Cardiff University MSc in Palliative Medicine for Healthcare Professionals.

2. Education

Jo Hayes qualified in 1991 from the University of Wales College of Medicine and completed her MSc in Palliative Medicine in 2003.  

3. Research Area

Jo Hayes leads a community specialist palliative care team and regularly assists her patients to rationalise their medicines as they approach the end of their lives. She is currently leading on the writing of an e-learning module on deprescribing for the End of Life Care for All e-learning (e-ELCA) programme for Health Education England.

4. Conflict of interest

None