Virtual Reality for Advanced Cancer Pain

Inclusion Criteria

• •Patients will be considered eligible to participate if:
• •Under the care of the specialist palliative care team or cancer centre
• •A documented diagnosis of advanced cancer (Synonyms: "Palliative", "terminal", "incurable", "treatable but not curable") in their medical notes, confirmed by the clinical team.
• •Adult (aged 18 years or over)
• •Pain score in the last 7 days of ≥1 on Numerical Rating Scale \[0-10\]
• •Full visual and auditory abilities
• •No restriction in range of head and neck movement
• •Capacity to consent to the study
• •Fluent in English
• •An estimated prognosis of longer than 6 months.
• •a registered healthcare professional (doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, psychologists)
• •employed by the study or location or by the virtual reality company.
• •Professional/staff participants will be excluded if:
• •They are not employed by the study location, or the virtual reality company
• •We will document reasons for not participating, where offered.