Daily News Roundup – 31 January 2014

Categories: In The Media.

73% back Margo MacDonald’s assisted suicide Bill

Edinburgh Evening News

Almost three-quarters of people in Lothian back the legalisation of assisted suicide, according to a new poll published today.

Group says assisted suicide support falling

Herald Scotland

Campaign group Care Not Killing say that support for a change in the law on assisted suicide is falling.

Doctor admits ignorance of care pathway

Edinburgh Evening News

A top doctor has admitted that he and other NHS Lothian consultants did not know how to properly implement controversial guidance designed to improve care for dying patients.

Need for end of life care for older homeless, report finds

Irish Times

Provision should be made within the health service for end of life care for older homeless people, a new Irish study has recommended.

Hospice ponders DIY option for ambulance

Hemel Today

The Hospice of St Francis may pay for its own ambulance service after a seriously ill patient waited six hours to be transported to the specialist centre.

Putting patients at the centre of everything we do

NHS England

Dr Kate Granger has written a blog post about compassion in care and about her #hellomynameis campaign.

‘Named GP’ plans thrown into disarray as minister suggests practices can devolve care coordination to district nurses

Pulse

Plans to rollout ‘named GPs’ for all elderly patients from April have been thrown into confusion after a minister’s suggestion that practices could devolve the coordination of care to district nurses was challenged by the nurse’s representative body.

Charities are ‘drowning in fundraising data and failing to realise its potential’

Third Sector

Charities are “drowning in data” and struggling to realise the fundraising potential of the information they hold on donors, according to a new report by the software company Blackbaud and the research consultancy nfpSynergy.

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