Daily News Roundup – 19 November 2014

Categories: In The Media.

TV’s Ranvir Singh helps launch The Mill at St Catherine’s Hospice

Lancashire Evening Post

A new café and community hub built in the grounds of St Catherine’s Hospice has been launched with the help of Good Morning Britain star Ranvir Singh.

Best of care at £1.2m hospice

Nottingham Post

The new St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice Grantham Hospital Inpatient Unit, designed by a Nottingham architects’ firm, has been heralded as the start of a new era for end of life care.

Ed Sheeran makes teenager’s final wish a money spinner for hospice

The Yorkshire Post

The YouTube film made by Emmie Jade Bennett-Price, who was 14 when she died in July after a battle with bone cancer, has proved such a hit it is raising cash for the Bluebell Wood Hospice, where she spent her final days.

Dudley nurse honoured for life-changing work

Dudley News

Karen Lewis has been honoured for improving the quality of end of life care for cancer patients at Russells Hall Hospital.

All about my mother: ‘It’s amazing what the living expect of the dying’

The Guardian

“For much of my life, there was something about my mother I felt almost allergic to. Yet, as she approached death, for the first time I found I didn’t merely love her, I actually liked her.”

Better sex-and-dementia care call

BBC News

Better training is needed for dementia carers to deal with issues around relationships, intimacy and sex, the Care Quality Commission has said.

Society lotteries deregulation could lead to less trust in charities, says NCVO

Civil Society

Deregulation of society lotteries could impact public trust and confidence in charities, NCVO has told the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

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