The majority of people seeking help with their grief have struggled to access bereavement services during the coronavirus pandemic, early research suggests. Many people struggling after a bereavement faced long
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The palliative care sector is at “serious risk” of collapse if the Government does not commit an extra £313 million a year to end its funding crisis, a leading provider
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A disabled six-year-old girl at the centre of a High Court life support treatment fight has died, a lawyer said. Pippa Knight had been in a vegetative state at the
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The number of care home residents who died during the coronavirus pandemic in England and Wales was a fifth higher than the average for the previous five years, figures show.
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A High Court judge has given doctors the go-ahead to end the life of a brain-damaged six-year-old girl who has been at the centre of a long-running treatment fight. Mr
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Imagine that death is just around the corner. How will you spend your final moments? Quietly with loved ones? With a priest giving last rites? Perhaps listening to your favourite
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About 60,000 extra deaths have taken place in private homes in the UK since lockdown began a year ago, new analysis suggests. Extra deaths – known as “excess deaths” –
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A care home resident died alone while her daughter was left in a waiting room, a watchdog has found. The daughter suffered “avoidable distress” by not being informed her mother
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A woman only discovered that a do not resuscitate order had been put on her husband by accident after finding documents left on her sofa by a health worker. Sonya
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Individuals’ human rights were potentially breached in more than 500 cases where do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions were made during the coronavirus pandemic, the care regulator has said.
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