Hospice care begins at home
Motherwell Times
St Andrew’s Hospice’s outreach project is harnessing the power of friendship to enable older people with life-limiting illness remain at home.
Health professionals receive an education in palliative care
Dudley News
More than 70 healthcare professionals across Dudley borough are now equipped with the skills to ensure more people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses can spend their final days at home.
Plans for £16.5m Havens Hospice unveiled
Echo News
The planned two-storey adult hospice will increase inpatient beds from ten to 16, day care services from 15 to 20 patients and offer out-patient treatments for the first time in Southend.
Hospice’s glowing inspection report
This is Wiltshire
All aspects of care at Prospect Hospice’s inpatient unit and day service have been highly praised following a thorough inspection by the health watchdog.
How healthcare professionals can better identify and support informal carers
Marie Curie blog
Dr Anne Finucane and Professor Scott Murray, co-authors of a new study funded by Marie Curie, explain why it is important to support people caring for those at the end of their lives.
Cancer victim’s parents want terminal patients to be able to opt out of being given final prognosis
Birmingham Mail
Eric and Lyn Harvey have launched a campaign to give the dying the right not to know they are terminally ill, following the death of their daughter.
Kate, our new Queen of Hearts: How the Duchess has made sick children her deeply personal mission Down Under
Daily Mail
The Duchess of Cambridge will use the Royal tour of New Zealand and Australia to champion the cause closest to her heart – the children’s hospice movement.
Tributes as Margo MacDonald MSP dies aged 70
The Scotsman
Heartfelt tributes have been paid to veteran Scottish politician Margo MacDonald, who died peacefully at home on Friday with her family by her side.
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