Hackney says thanks to its unsung heroes with the first ever Civic Awards
Hackney Gazette
St Joseph’s Hospice was presented with an award for its work in the community at the first I Love Hackney Mayor’s Civic Awards.
Welsh celebrities get in the party spirit to bring joy to life-limited children
Wales Online
Jamie Roberts and Mark Mark Colbourne joined several other celebrities at Ty Hafan to mark Children’s Hospice Week.
Northern Ireland Hospice gets an artistic makeover
The Irish Times
At the new Northern Ireland Hospice, Jenny Lee discovers a wealth of colour and artwork inspired by nature and finds out more about the role art has in the hospice from artist Clare McComish.
Teen N’abbey golf prodigy is the new ambassador of the children’s hospice
Belfast Media Group
Golf prodigy and current world junior champion, Tom McKibbin, has become the newest and youngest every ambassador of Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice.
Funding, clinical care and honest leadership are needed
The Guardian
All clinicians who come in to contact with patients who are dying need robust education and training.
The British Medical Association prepares to revisit its opposition to assisted dying
The Economist
Most British doctors want a change in position. But that looks unlikely.
Facing my fear: telling a cancer patient he was going to die
The Guardian
“I was reluctant to let a young patient know he had aggressive cancer. If there was no rhyme or reason to who got fatally ill, nobody was safe,” writes oncologist Jalal Baig.
The Digital Legacy Conference 2016
BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care blog
Sandy Weatherburn, founder and director at Social Embers Digital estate management, reports on the Digital Legacy Conference, which was held at St Joseph’s Hospice during Dying Matters Week.
From across the ehospice editions:
Ireland edition: Ireland an inspirational example in end of life care
South Africa edition: Focus on living and it will be a better day
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