Daily News Roundup – 3 January 2014

Categories: In The Media.

Prince Charles meets patients and carers at Cotswold Care Hospice

The Gazette

The Prince of Wales, who is patron of the Minchinhampton-based charity, met patients, carers, staff and volunteers during a visit last month, during which he opened a new creative therapy extension.

Terminally ill young to spend last moments at home

Herald Scotland

With the launch of the Rest Assured Home Service, run by CHAS and Marie Curie Nursing Service, young people over 16 who currently receive services from CHAS will be offered end of life care in their own homes.

Hospices sign up to dementia scheme

Daventry Express

Douglas Macmillan Hospice in Staffordshire and St Giles’ Hospice in Lichfield have teamed up as part of an innovative project aimed at redefining the way people with dementia are cared for.

A day in the life of … a young people’s community worker

The Guardian

Anita Gatt works for CLIC Sargent in Cambridgeshire providing one-to-one support for people aged 16 to 24 with cancer.

Freedom to grieve at your own pace ‘should be a right’

News North Wales

A parliamentary bill, which calls for a parent’s right to paid bereavement leave to be enshrined in law, will see its second reading in the House of Commons later this month.

Well-run charity organisations should be applauded

The Scotsman

“There is an often-used saying ‘knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing’ which I have been reminded of many times over the past few months,” writes Roslyn Neely, director (fundraising and communications) for Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS).

Award-winning training scheme for carers could go nationwide

The Guardian

Sir David Nicholson, chief executive of NHS England, is keen to see a national roll out of a training scheme, developed by nurses in north Devon, who have been boosting the clinical skills of care home support staff.

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