Daily News Roundup – 17 March 2014

Categories: In The Media.

‘East Yorkshire needs a second hospice’: Alfred Bean Hospital in Driffield put forward

Hull Daily Mail

Calls are being made to look at the possibility of opening a new hospice in the East Riding.

Hospice backs sell-off scheme

The Sentinel

Officials of the Douglas Macmillan Hospice have welcomed the decision to put more than half a billion pounds of services for terminally ill people out to competitive tender in Staffordshire.

Care Quality Commission pours praise upon Tring hospice

Hemel Today

Rennie Grove Hospice Care has received excellent feedback from the independent regulator of healthcare in England.

Hospice events to network with local businesses

Island Echo

Earl Mountbatten Hospice is hosting a networking event where the hospice team will be presenting to local business representatives a comprehensive list of ways they can support patient care, so they can choose ways that suit them and their staff.

Helping Dad die: a daughter’s story

Financial Times Magazine

Catherine Syer writes about her fathers death from an incurable degenerative disease and the right to die debate.

No need to filter

Daily Mail

Instagram account of grandmother dying from cancer attracts thousands of followers – and she hopes today’s youth will ‘learn something’.

Warning on care information ‘maze’

Yahoo News

The social care system is so confusing that it is driving some families to “breaking point”, consumer watchdog Which? has warned.

Government moves to speed up payroll-giving process

Third Sector 

Legislation which will come into force on 6 April will reduce from 60 to 35 days the time that payroll-giving agencies have to pass donations to charities.

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