Vulnerable people are being failed by poor end-of-life care, a coalition of health and social care organisations said, as they called for a “radical transformational shift” in how older people
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Hospices are facing a “critical” £47 million shortfall in funding as the cost of caring for dying patients and their families spirals, experts have warned. Hospice UK used Freedom of
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A course to help people with “chemo brain” is being rolled out across the UK by a cancer support charity after its success in Scotland. The condition, officially known as
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Treatments for cancer patients are among those approved for use on the NHS in Scotland in the latest round of decisions from the Scottish Medicines Consortium. It has accepted polatuzumab
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Tens of thousands of people with cancer have experienced delays to vital cancer checks and tests over the last decade, a charity has claimed. Macmillan Cancer Support said that cancer
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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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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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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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