Dr Mark Lee, a consultant in palliative care, and Dr Jacky Davis, a consultant radiologist, have deeply contrasting views on ...

Ally Witney, clinical lead for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s end-of-life care coordination team, adds: “Feedback from the families of patients we supported was overwhelmingly positive ...

End-of-life care also frequently involved hospital ... freeing up hospital beds for patients that needed them." Some NHS staff also told the inquiry how stressful it was to be redeployed from ...

This is how broken the NHS is at the moment.” Formerly a current affairs journalist, Dr Clarke re-trained and qualified as a doctor in 2009. Now specialising in end-of-life care, she is the auth ...

Hospices that refuse to offer assisted dying services could be forced to shut if their funding is pulled, palliative care doctors have warned.

Elderly patients nearing the end of their life are needlessly being given distressing ... Researchers say the wasteful checks also increase costs for the NHS, extend hospital stays and delay ...

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"Whilst the majority of palliative and end-of-life care is provided by the NHS, we recognise the vital role voluntary organisations including hospices play in providing support to people at end of ...

A hospice charity has said it has lost all of its NHS funding for end-of-life care for people at home. Weldmar Hospicecare said NHS Dorset would withdraw the £400,000 subsidy from April 2025 ...

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will be debated and likely ... such as social care and the NHS, should be prioritised over assistance to die. My fundamental worry that I don't think ...