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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More than three-quarters of people who had a loved one die at home during the coronavirus pandemic said the Government has failed to prioritise the care that those dying at
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Hospice staff should be tested each week for coronavirus otherwise facilities risk having to close, an end-of-life charity said. Marie Curie said the lack of access to regular weekly testing,
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Families have felt “bereft of involvement” in saying goodbye to their loved ones due to pandemic restrictions, according to a new nursing survey. Staff involved in end of life care
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Thousands more people are dying at home from dementia, cancer and heart conditions as they struggle with isolation, fear of coronavirus and “disrupted” health services, new figures show. Deaths from
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An investigation has been launched into allegations of the blanket use of “Do not resuscitate” orders in England during the early part of the coronavirus pandemic. Concerns have been raised
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