Cancer patients condemn hospital care
The Guardian
Cancer patients are going hungry and receiving the wrong drugs while in hospital, with some feeling so badly looked after they even consider abandoning their treatment, a new survey has found.
Carers let down by complicated and means-tested process
The Guardian – letters
Macmillan Cancer Support calls on the government to introduce free social care for people in the last weeks of life to help more people to die at home if they so wish.
Young carers: Quarter of a million children provide care for others
BBC News
Nearly a quarter of a million children in England and Wales are caring for a relative, new statistics show.
Death and dying
Radio 4, Today, at 2:47:50
Dr Kate Granger talks about changing attitudes to death and dying, tweeting from her deathbed and assisted suicide.
Time to talk about dying
Dunstable Today
Keech Hospice Care is encouraging everyone to talk openly about death dying and bereavement during Dying Matters Awareness Week, which ends on Sunday.
Death Cafe dinner
Swindon Advertiser
A funeral celebrant and burial ground founder has joined forces with the Swindon Festival of Literature to mark National Dying Matters Week.
Margaret Kerr Unit officially opened
BBC News
The first palliative care facility in the Borders, the Margaret Kerr Unit, is to be officially opened by the Duke of Gloucester.
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