Dr Sharon Chadwick

Dr. Sharon Chadwick is am a Consultant in Palliative Medicine with a special interest in advanced respiratory disease and advanced heart failure. She received her degree in Respiratory Medicine from Birmingham University and SpR training in the North Thames Rotation. She later studied in Palliative Medicine Training at University of Wales.

She is currently the Medical Palliative Care lead at Watford Hospital and also the Medical Director of The Hospice of St Francis. She is responsible for the GP training post at the Hospice and her current practise revolves around developing services for those suffering from advanced lung diseases and heart failure. Most of the patients she sees privately have a diagnosis of cancer and her priority is to ensure that any patient with a life limiting illness has the best quality of life possible for as long as possible. Dr. Chadwick knows the importance of providing compassion and care to both the patient and their family throughout the course of illness.

• analgesics (to treat pain)
• antiemetics (to treat and also to prevent nausea and vomiting)
• laxatives / aperients (to prevent and treat constipation)
• adjuvant medications (medications that work with analgesics to improve pain or symptom control)

• Symptom control in cancer
• Respiratory disease
• Heart failure