Overseas care workers will be spared the government’s new 10-year wait for permanent settlement, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced, in a significant softening of the…
Read more...A care home resident rolled up her sleeves to help maintain the garden at Winchester Hospice in a bid to give patients and their loved ones a more inviting outdoor space.
Read more...The National End of Life Care Coalition (NEoLCC) launches a new report today that reveals how the vast majority of end-of-life care, bereavement support and…
Read more...Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice is highlighting the vital role hospice care plays in the community during Hospice Care Week (Oct 5- 11), supporting families to stay connected, supported and understood during the most difficult times.
Read more...Michael Palin, Russell T Davies, Larry Lamb, Chris Kamara and Megan McKenna are among a host of Marie Curie supporters speaking up on personal experiences of death to urge Prime Minister Andy Burnham to fix palliative care.
Read more...Dozens of residents and staff members from Mandale House Care Home, in Thornaby, Ingleby Care Home, in Ingleby Barwick, and Hazelgrove Court Care Home, in…
Read more...A resident at Dale Brook care home in Clay Cross has been honoured by Ashgate Hospice for her remarkable fundraising efforts over more than two decades, raising an incredible £27,808.85.
Read more...Bristol’s St Peter’s Hospice is supporting a national campaign encouraging people to consider leaving a gift to their local hospice in their Will.
Read more...Members of Parliament have voted down proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales, drawing to a close the most sustained parliamentary effort in…
Read more...The Health and Social Care Committee has endorsed the government’s intention to hire Baroness Julia Neuberger as Chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC). MPs have…
Read more...End of life charity Marie Curie has written an open letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham today urging him to match words with action as…
Read more...St Christopher’s Hospice, the home of the modern hospice movement, was pleased to welcome the Deputy Civic Mayor of Croydon, Councillor Scott Roche, to visit the hospice on Thursday 6 August.
Read more...Thanks to exceptional and unprecedented support from the local community over the past year, Prospect Hospice, Swindon and North Wiltshire’s dedicated adult hospice providing end of life care…
Read more...Hospices across England ended the last financial year with a collective deficit of more than £70 million – more than double the previous year* – as rising costs and stagnant funding force services to make difficult decisions about care.
Read more...Sue Ryder’s Chief Executive has urged the new Prime Minister and Health Secretary not to let momentum on palliative and end-of-life care reform stall, warning that a critical opportunity to overhaul the system could otherwise be lost.
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