Substance use and palliative care researchers are joining forces with five charities to explore end-of-life care for people with drink or drug issues through a comprehensive new study. Supported by
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Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen by almost 10% in the last decade, although the number of cases is still going up, new figures show. Analysis by Cancer
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A prominent right-to-die campaigner has lost his fight for life in hospital at the age of 67. Gordon Ross, who suffered from multiple health problems including Parkinson’s disease, had been
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Michelle Brown, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Derby, has recently published a book to support healthcare and nursing professionals working in palliative and end of life
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A university-developed alert system, designed to assess the needs of people caring for terminally ill loved ones, has featured prominently in the recently published National Institute for Health Research Better
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The deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness has paid tribute to the work of the CHARIS Cancer Care Centre in Cookstown when visited the facility on Tuesday. Commenting after his tour
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Dying people should be treated with respect and compassion and doctors should not make “snap” decisions about their care, a watchdog has said. The National Institute for Health and Care
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The Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute, Liverpool (MCPCIL) has been awarded a £750,000 prestigious Programme Grant for research to enable the Institute to deliver a range of research and other projects to help
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Jeremy Hunt has blasted the NHS over allegations health bosses failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of more than 1,000 people since 2011 as “totally and utterly unacceptable”. A leaked
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Leading judges have rejected a challenge brought by disability rights campaigners against the prosecution policy in assisted dying cases. The campaigners accused Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Alison Saunders (pictured)
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