Relatives of a grandmother in her 50s left brain-damaged and paralysed from the neck down after contracting Covid-19 are waiting for an appeal ruling after a judge concluded that she
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A charity has warned of a “hidden crisis” of people dying at home without sufficient support, pain relief or dignity and a shortage of nurses to provide palliative care. One
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A terminally ill man who plans to travel to Switzerland to end his life before the year is out says legislators have so far “failed” people on assisted dying laws.
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A Jewish couple who failed to persuade a High Court judge to allow them to move their seriously ill daughter from England to a hospital in Israel have lost a
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Matt Hancock has endorsed the idea of setting up a “What Works” centre to gather evidence on the quality of palliative care in the UK and inform debate around assisted
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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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