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BMC Palliative Care BioMed Central Study protocol Open Access Study protocol: delayed intervention randomised controlled trial within the Medical Research Council (MRC) Framework to assess the effectiveness of a new palliative care service 1 2 3 1 1 Irene J Higginson* , Bella Vivat , Eli Silber , Tariq Saleem , Rachel Burman , 1 1 Sam Hart and Polly Edmonds Address: 1Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Kings College London, Weston Education Centre, Cutcombe Rd, London, SE5 9RJ, UK, 2School of Health Science and Social Care, Brunel University, Isleworth, Middlesex, UK and 3Department of Neurology, Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK Email: Irene J Higginson* - irene.higginson@kcl.ac.uk; Bella Vivat - bella.vivat@brunel.ac.uk; Eli Silber - eli.silber@kingsch.nhs.uk; Tariq Saleem - tariq.saleem@kcl.ac.uk; Rachel Burman - rachel.burman@kcl.ac.uk; Sam Hart - sam.hart@kcl.ac.uk; Polly Edmonds - polly.edmonds@kcl.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 02 October 2006 Received: 03 August 2006 Accepted: 02 October 2006 BMC Palliative Care 2006, 5:7 doi:10.1186/1472-684X-5-7 This article is available from: /1472-684X/5/7 © 2006 Higginson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided t