Cross party fears that NHS reforms risk the right to die at home
The Sunday Telegraph
This piece on the back of a joint letter to The Sunday Telegraph, signed by Help the Hospices, along with a number of other charities, patient groups and politicians, expressing fears that care of the dying will worsen because it does not feature in plans for the restructured NHS.
Combating Cancer 2012
FT (Financial Times) special report
Includes palliative care feature: ‘Millions lack access to painkillers’ where Andrew Jack reports on failures in the terminal stages of disease.
Colleges and charities defend end of life care pathway
Nursing Times
More than 20 organisations have signed a statement seeking to rectify ‘misconceptions and often inaccurate information’ about the Liverpool Care Pathway.
Royal tour tragedy
Mirror
Terminally ill boy who melted Kate Middleton’s heart during moving visit to hospice in Malaysia dies
Hospice’s future is looking bright
Hartlepool Mail
After ‘brave and difficult’ decisions were made, Hartlepool and District Hospice is now in a stable position to move forward and the latest balance sheets show it broke even in the last financial year.
First steps towards hospice
The Extra: Glasgow South and Eastwood
Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice: a fundraising appeal to build an £18 million state-of-the-art hospice in Glasgow kicked off this week.
‘His last wish was to die at home’
Mail Online
Fury of mother who watched her husband die months after their daughter’s suicide
Charity Shops Survey 2012: Keeping the high street alive
Civil Society
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