Marie Curie to end home nursing service for dying patients in Sheffield
The Star
Marie Curie is to stop providing home nursing services to dying patients in Sheffield following planned changes to NHS funding.
Park opens in memory of Rebekah
Carrick Times
A Carrickfergus schoolgirl has been remembered with the opening of the new playground at the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice.
Assisted suicide law backed
Herald Scotland
Three-quarters of responses to a consultation on the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill backed the proposed legislation, the My Life, My Death, My Choice campaign group have said.
Review of dementia care funding urged
HSJ (subscription needed)
Wide variations in NHS funding for the continuing care of people with dementia have been uncovered.
NHS regulator seeks nurse managers to become inspectors
Nursing Times
The Care Quality Commission offering two-year secondments for band 7 nurses working in the NHS to join its team of hospital inspectors.
Why death is so important in young adult fiction
The Guardian
Should adults be concerned about how much death appears in teen books? Not at all, argues YA author Rupert Wallis, in fact, they could learn a lot about life and death by reading them too.
A letter to … the strangers on that Friday train
The Guardian
A letter from an anonymous passenger thanking fellow passengers and train staff for their compassion.
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