Budget boost for palliative care
Radio New Zealand
New money is being poured into palliative care for the terminally ill, with $76.1 million to be spent on hospices and community care services in the next four years.
Palliative care funds and services must filter to rural area
New Zealand – Scoop
“We need to ensure that funds and services filter through to rural communities,” says New Zealand Rural General Practice Network chief executive Dalton Kelly.
New Outram Community Hospital to ease crunch with additional 550 beds
Singapore – Straits Times
Situated near the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), 500 of the beds in the new Outram Community Hospital (OCH) will be for sub-acute patients and 50 of these beds will be for palliative care patients.
California Medical Association drops opposition to doctor-assisted suicide
US – Reuters
The California Medical Association on Wednesday dropped its three-decade opposition to physician-assisted suicide, possibly paving the way for already-introduced legislation that would make the practice legal for terminally ill patients in the state.
Denley: The high cost of dying
Canada – Ottawa Citizen
A recent study by an Ottawa researcher offers some new and compelling numbers about the high cost of dying. In Ontario, it costs the health care system an average of $14,000 for the last month of a person’s life.
“It’s all about life at West Island Palliative Care Residence” nurses say
Canada – West Island Blog
In celebration of nurse’s week, last Wednesday, The Suburban caught up with nurses at West Island Palliative Care Residence (WIPCR) to get a first hand view of what it is to take care of patients in the last days of their lives.
Why we need to talk about dying
UK – Daily Telegraph
Discussing how you want to die is one of the most important conversations you can have, says Margaret McCartney.
Palliative care can ease the way to a good death
ehospice South Africa
The debate on physician-assisted dying is gaining momentum worldwide, and particularly so in SA, as a result of the recent landmark judgment in the High Court in Pretoria permitting an applicant to die, assisted by his doctor.
Powerful one-woman play “The God Box, A Daughter’s Story” coming to Ireland
ehospice Ireland
Best-selling American author and successful businesswoman Mary Lou Quinlan is bringing her emotional one-woman play “The God Box: A Daughter’s Story” to Ireland in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation and Milford Care Centre in Limerick.
Hospice at home – the key to quality end of life care in the community
ehospice UK
Sue Varvel, Chair of the National Association for Hospice at Home, writes for ehospice on the key role hospice at home services play in providing high-quality end of life care in the community and how the national association supports those providing this important service.
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