Daily News Roundup – 9 October 2012

Categories: In The Media.

Call to widen palliative care access to more non-cancer patients

Nursing Times

Highlighting Widening access through nurse leadership report, produced by Help the Hospices and launched as part of Hospice Care Week.

Emeli Sandé to host songwriting workshop at the Royal Albert Hall

Third Sector

Celebrities including The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue, Lynda Bellingham and Alec Stewart have backed Hospice Care Week (scroll to second paragraph)

Prospect care was second to none

Swindon Advertiser

A woman whose husband was cared for at Prospect Hospice has said a big thank you during Hospice Care Week.

Where do health reforms leave charities?

The Guardian healthcare network

Voluntary organisations need to understand their role in the new health landscape.

How to die

New York Times

Insights on end of life care in the USA and the UK.

Terminally ill woman changes her mind over right to die

The Telegraph

A terminally ill 28-year-old woman, who won a court battle against her own parents over her right to die, has changed her mind at the last minute.

NHS launch campaign to tackle problem of families ignoring relative’s wishes to be organ donors 

Scottish Daily Record

The Respect My Dying Wish campaign will use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to tackle the organ donor issue.

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