What is dying like? New info published by the NHS
Herald Scotland
Health experts have issued new guidelines explaining what happens when someone is dying amid concerns that death has become an alien experience for many of us.
Rainbows Hospice rare gold award
Loughborough Echo
Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People has been awarded the prestigious President’s Gold Award at the annual RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards.
Doctor praises Burton’s Queen’s Hospital for its end of life care
Burton Mail
A special consultant brought in to improve end of life services at Burton’s Queen’s Hospital has spoken of the measures put in place to help people deal with the passing of a loved one.
Mid Surrey nursing team praised for end of life care
Dorking & Leatherhead Advertiser
A community nursing scheme in mid Surrey has been praised after new figures showed it had helped 92% of terminally ill patients to spend their last days in the place they wanted to in the past 12 months – high above the national average.
My mum’s last hours in A&E will haunt me for ever: As it’s revealed patients are still dying in needless pain in NHS hospitals, a daughter tells her horrifying story
Daily Mail
Last week, Dying Without Dignity, a Health Service Ombudsman report into end-of-life care, revealed that many are still enduring painful, undignified and sometimes lonely deaths in NHS hospitals.
Stoke-on-Trent hospice London to Paris row gets under way
BBC News
A team including West Bromwich Albion head coach Tony Pulis has embarked on a non-stop six-day row from the Tower of London to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. to raise money for the Donna Louise Trust.
From across ehospice editions:
Portugal: Regional palliative care forum meets and announces winner of the Ferraz Gonçalves Award
Governor General launches PCA’s Lone Pine project in Canberra
New National Cancer Strategy steering group announced
WHO: Thousands in urgent need of palliative care
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