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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A review into the disputes that can arise between families and medics in the care of critically ill children will be led by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, it has
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A Labour MP has urged the Government to prevent his family’s battle for hospital access in the heartbreaking weeks before the death of his father from happening to others. Dan
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Around 750,000 extra bereavements happened during the coronavirus pandemic, a report suggests – but there are “huge gaps” in formal support for people dealing with loss. The pandemic had a
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A businessman living with incurable cancer is working on a new book which he plans to give free to others with the disease. Kevin Donaghy, from the Scottish borders, is
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A paediatric nurse has praised the “good being done every day” at the UK’s children’s hospices after completing a 3,200-mile cycle between every centre in just 70 days. After visiting
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A senior doctor has told a High Court judge she does not know whether there are other cases similar to one in which a seriously ill baby started trying to
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Archie Battersbee has died in hospital after weeks of legal battles. The 12-year-old had been in a coma since he was found unconscious by his mother Hollie Dance in April
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