Kate Middleton will visit Shooting Star House Children’s Hospice
Eonline
The Duchess of Cambridge will tour the facilities, view a music therapy session, meet a group of volunteers and have tea with some of the kids and their families.
60 seconds with…Dallas Pounds, chief executive of Trinity Hospice, London
Nursing Times
The Nursing Times talks to Dallas Pounds, who qualified as a nurse in 1989 and is now chief executive of Trinity Hospice.
Work to start on transforming the Burton Centre to St Nicholas Hospice Care outreach facility
Haverhill Weekly News
The Burton Centre is being transformed into St Nicholas Hospice Cares first community outreach centre. The building will become an access point for people living with life-shortening illnesses, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease.
Cause to celebrate?
EAPC Blog
This is the opening post for a series of blog posts commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of the EAPC and is written by Sheila Payne, President of the European Association for Palliative Care and Director of the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University.
Charity makes funding plea for care of elderly
Nursing Times
Almost two-thirds of people over the age of 50 think the government treats elderly people badly, according to a new poll.
Tell us how to improve hospital care for frail older people
HSJ
HSJ is inviting readers to help shape its Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People by answering the question: What policies, techniques and approaches have you seen improve the care of frail older people in hospitals?
NPC: Funders should stop judging charities on overhead spend
Civil Society
Funders need to look deeper than the headline figures when trying to understand the financial stability of a charity, according to a new report from NPC.
HMRC and NAO dispute success of gift aid in boosting giving
Civil Society
HMRC and the National Audit Office yesterday both claimed charity sector support for their opposing views on whether charitable donations have risen as a result of gift aid.
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