A crucial year ahead for Berkshire’s first children’s hospice
The Reading Chronicle
The head of Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice is optimistic that faith and hard work will see Berkshire’s first children’s hospice built by 2015.
Norfolk Hospice will forge closer ties with NHS as part of bid to improve services
EDP24
The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House, which plans to open a £3.5 million hospice for Norfolk next year, has pledged to build closer ties with the county’s NHS services to ensure patients receive the right care in the right place.
Scheme sees dying wishes honoured for Brighton and Hove terminally ill
The Argus
More than three-quarters of terminally ill people in Brighton and Hove are able to die where they want to, thanks to a partnership between The Martlets Hospice in Hove and the Sussex Community NHS Trust.
Becoming St Peter’s Hospice trustee was ‘right next step to take’ for GP
The Bristol Post
Having been a GP in St George for 20 years, Peter Goyder was well aware of the work of St Peter’s Hospice. But for the last year he has had a more direct role with the city’s hospice charity as one of its trustees.
1D Louis fans give £13k to Bluebell Wood
The Star
Fans of Louis Tomlinson from One Direction have raised around £13,400 for Bluebell Wood children’s hospice, as a gift for Louis who celebrated his birthday on Christmas Eve.
NHS groups seek ‘new page’ after scandals of 2013
BBC News
The leaders of 10 NHS groups have called for a “new page to be turned” in 2014 after the “failures of the past”.
When it’s time to go, let me go, with a nice glass of whisky and a pleasing pill
The Guardian – Comment is free
Advances in science are keeping us alive for longer and longer, but we are denied the right to die with dignity. It is grotesque, says Margaret Drabble.
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