On 23rd June, The Care & Occupational Therapy Show returns as a vital meeting point for professionals across the sector; bringing together expertise, technology, and practical insight under one roof.
Read more...The UK’s National Advance Care Planning Day highlights the importance of Advance Care Planning, Advance Care Plans and sensitive conversations.
Read more...People with learning disabilities have been supporting a leading end of life charity to create new accessible resources around the topics of terminal illness, death, dying and bereavement – after research found they are often not involved in conversations about the subject or told when someone close to them will die.
Read more...Kings Lodge Care Home, Camberley, waved an emotional goodbye to the Phyllis Tuckwell In-Patient Unit which has been based there since 2023 with the fanfare of a brass band and support of all its staff, residents, management, and an appearance from the mayor.
Read more...Care providers have been urged to review their practices without delay following a landmark Supreme Court ruling that fundamentally changes how deprivation of liberty is determined in England and Wales.
Read more...A new rose has been launched by garden experts Thompson & Morgan, named in honour of actress, presenter and passionate gardener Caroline Quentin, and in…
Read more...St Peter’s Hospice has officially unveiled its newly refurbished first-floor offices at its Brentry site in Bristol, with local MP Darren Jones attending to formally…
Read more...Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity, is today announcing funding to support research into improving palliative and end of life care in…
Read more...Hartford Care’s Alton Place care home on Winchester Road, Alton, has completed The Mountbatten End of Life Programme, an accredited education and training initiative designed…
Read more...A major new campaign launches today calling on Government to recognise that social care is an essential part of our economy as well as our…
Read more...Aspiring young healthcare professionals have celebrated completing six months of volunteering at St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne. The hospice runs a Young Clinical Volunteer (YCV)…
Read more...Nearly six in ten English hospices have made or are considering cuts to frontline services, according to new data from Hospice UK, as financial pressures…
Read more...Hospices across Wales will receive further funding support as landmark national commissioning guidance is agreed. The £4.3m support package from the Welsh Government will provide…
Read more...Nearly half (46%) of families say they were not told what to expect as a loved one living with dementia approached the end of their…
Read more...The government and NHS England are not responding to the growing financial crisis in the adult hospice sector with the seriousness and urgency the situation…
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