A woman whose father died from Covid-19 after he caught the illness in hospital has called for urgent changes to infection control policies and the treatment of bereaved families so
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End-of-life care across the NHS in England is “inconsistent” and “often falls below expectations”, a report has found. A national probe by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) found care
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Ambulance bosses have apologised to families after staff were accused of covering up errors and withholding evidence from coroners when patients died. An independent review has been completed into how
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The hospice sector is at risk unless the Government and the NHS provide a long-term funding settlement, ministers have been warned. Conservative MP Paul Holmes opened a debate in Westminster
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UK hospices are facing a funding crisis and will need to find an extra £120m to match the NHS pay offer to staff, chief executives have warned. The charity Hospice
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Better-funded palliative care will never be able to eliminate unbearable suffering for everyone, the first session of a parliamentary inquiry into assisted dying has heard. The current law was described
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A seriously ill pensioner at the centre of litigation in a specialist court has been granted a wish to spend his “remaining time” at home with a pet bird. The
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Dame Prue Leith has called for “compassionate and gentle assisted death” to be legalised in the UK as figures showed the number of British members of Dignitas has soared by
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Some 23,000 “excess patient deaths” may have occurred due to long A&E wait last year, a medical college has claimed. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said that in
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Football pundit Chris Kamara has delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for changes to pension rules for people dying of a terminal illness. The 65-year-old presenter, representatives of Marie
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