Help the Hospices welcomes government shift on end of life care in NHS Mandate
Help the Hospices
Help the Hospices has welcomed the inclusion of end of life care as a priority in the NHS Mandate.
Also see our ehospice article on the NHS Mandate.
Quality of care linked to staff support, says Hunt
Nursing Times
Improving the quality of care given by nurses and other healthcare professionals will be a major priority for the NHS over the next two years, after health secretary Jeremy Hunt made it central to his first NHS mandate.
Is the NHS mandate really that radical?
BBC News
The government has been quick to declare the publication of the NHS mandate as important.
Delivering choice in end-of-life care
The Guardian, healthcare network
End-of-life services reduce demand for expensive and distressing hospital admissions – and improve the quality of patient care, as new research from the Nuffield Trust shows.
Charities are missing a trick on in-memoriam giving
Civil Society
Giving in memory of a dead loved one is an intensely personal, and potentially powerful, way to commemorate a loss and life. Many charities, however, are getting the relationship with in-memoriam givers very wrong.
Hospice moves ahead of plans for major new development
Belfast Telegraph
The Northern Ireland Hospice has relocated patients from its Somerton House facility to make way for a new rebuild.
Watford Grammar School for Boys raise £12,000 for Keech Hospice Care
Watford Observer
Students at Watford Grammar School raised £12,000 for their local hospice following the death of one of its students.
We’re halfway there in hospice appeal!
The Bolton News
A campaign by Bolton Hospice and The Bolton News to raise £110,000 for the Hospice at Home team has reached the halfway point.
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