Daily News Roundup – 15 October 2013

Categories: In The Media.

Project set to transform end of life care provision

Burton Mail

A major project to transform the way in which cancer patients and those approaching the end of life care are looked after in East Staffordshire is being launched later this month.

Three decades of helping St Catherine’s is celebrated

West Sussex Gazette

The charitable people of Crawley have been thanked for helping St Catherine’s Hospice to provide end of life care to thousands of patients for 30 years.

Chorley hospice team in own radio show

Lancashire Telegraph

Six young adults from from Derian House Children’s Hospice have recorded and edited their own radio show for an online broadcast.

Labour moots free social care for all

Health Service Journal

Labour is considering a radical plan to make social care free at the point of need and funded through taxation, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.

Care review team to swoop on 100 Welsh residential care homes

BBC News

A review team looking at the quality of life of older people is to swoop unannounced on 100 care homes.

Ministers unveil plans to target NHS care at weekends

BBC News

More should be done to make sure the NHS provides the same service at weekends as it does during the week, according to Scotland’s health secretary.

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