New chairman for hospice charity
Salisbury Journal
Dr Shaun McGee has stepped down as chairman at Salisbury Hospice, to be replaced by Ceri Hurford-Jones, managing director of the city’s radio station, Spire FM.
Plymouth hospice given £7,241 damages by MoD after caring for man who worked at dockyard
Plymouth Herald
St Luke’s Hospice has been given more than £7,000 in damages from the Ministry of Defence after it cared for a man who worked at the city’s dockyard for more than 30 years and developed asbestos induced mesothelioma.
Sara Cox launches bid to build area’s first children’s hospice in Radcliffe
The Bolton News
Radio presenter and DJ Sara Cox launched a £1 million appeal to complete Grace’s Place at the site of the old Bury Hospice in Radcliffe.
Ewan McGregor backs hospice appeal
The Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra
Actor Ewan McGregor has backed a Christmas appeal for Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS).
Warminster care home told update end of life policy
BBC Wiltshire
A nursing home has been warned to update its ‘dying policy’ after failing to tell a resident’s only regular visitor that she had died.
Nurse Maria O’Neill on why she’s devoted to the hospice movement
Daily Mail
After the dreadful care her dying grandfather endured, nurse Maria devoted herself to the hospice movement, working at Sue Ryder’s Thorpe Hall Hospice in Peterborough.
Hospital care standards review urged by Royal College of Surgeons
BBC Wales
A review of all Welsh hospitals to address “public anxiety” about standards of NHS care has been urged by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS).
NHS England drops plan to have 100,000 telehealth users this year
Pulse
NHS England has given up on attempts to get 100,000 patients using telehealth this year, despite health secretary Jeremy Hunt pledging to meet this target as part of plans to boost roll-out of the technology across England.
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