Following a public consultation last year, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has outlined the fees that providers of health and adult social care in England will be charged from April
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Health and care workers looking after dying people in their final days must do more to ask about spiritual beliefs, experts have said. Spiritual wishes were only documented for one
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Dying people are being left with inadequate round-the-clock pain relief and poor access to specialist help, according to new research. They are caught in a postcode lottery which affects whether
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has endorsed a new online toolkit developed by researchers at Keele University, which aims to prevent falls amongst the elderly that
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Many nurses feel they are too busy to give dying patients high-quality care, a new poll suggests. Two-thirds of nurses from across the UK felt they were not given sufficient
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Edge Hill University and Southport’s Queenscourt Hospice have launched a module to teach professionals and those delivering frontline services how to provide the best possible state-of-the-art care. Over 25 professionals
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The Prince of Wales came bearing a special gift on a Christmas visit to a hospice – a chocolate model of his Highgrove House. The cake, made by Chocolaterie Artisanale
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Children’s hospices are on the brink of a funding crisis owing to cuts and freezes in local authority and NHS spending, according to a report. The study, from the charities
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Dirty hospitals are serving out-of-date food to patients, an investigation has found. Meals are being prepared in mouldy kitchens, putting vulnerable patients at “high risk” of food poisoning, while others
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Health Minister Michelle O’Neill has paid tribute to the invaluable work at the Hospice following an extensive £13million refurbishment at their Somerton Road premises. The Minister visited the new facility
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