Report highlights growing need to improve end of life care for minority ethnic groups
Health Canal
A report from the Cicely Saunders Institute highlights how the end of life care needs of BAME communities are varied, growing and, despite examples of good practice, overall not adequately met.
Hospice group issues beds warning
Belfast Telegraph
A new report by the Irish Hospice Foundation claims that three times as many hospice beds are needed in the country to meet demand.
EU heart deaths ‘halved since 1980s’
BBC News
Death rates from coronary heart disease have more than halved in almost all EU countries since the early 1980s, according to research from Oxford University.
Scottish doctors appeal for organ donors with new film campaign
Daily Record
The British Medical Association Scotland have launched a new campaign to encourage more people to become organ donors.
‘We must end the bureaucracy around personal budgets’
Community Care
Making resource allocation systems more simple and transparent is critical to the success of personalisation, say Martin Routledge and John Waters of In Control.
Government planning ‘radical changes’ to payroll giving
Third Sector
The government is considering “radical changes” to payroll giving in a bid to improve take-up of the scheme, but has ruled out making it mandatory for employers, according to Sajid Javid, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
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