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Mar
2008 |
Dealing
with Death
How
we can all learn from the UK hospice movement
by
Michele Hart
As acknowledged leaders in palliative care, the UK hospice movement works closely with the wider caring community to share best practice and promote a holistic approach to end of life care. Help the Hospices is the charity which represents the UK hospice movement on a national level. Thanks to £70,000 of funding support from Healthplan provider
HSA, part of Simplyhealthy Group, it has recently has been able to provide grants to selected hospices across the UK to enable them to develop outreach training courses within their own regions.
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full article by Michele...] |
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Feb
2008 |
Bishop asks why mental health doesn’t have a Nightingale, Wilberforce or Fry
During this week’s General Synod debate on mental health, the Bishop of St Albans, the Rt Revd Christopher Herbert, has asked why there is no heroic figure of the stature of Nightingale, Wilberforce or Fry associated with caring for the mentally ill.
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full press release...]
[listen to the Bishop] |
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Feb
2008 |
Hospital chaplains’ chief honoured by appointment as Chaplain to Her Majesty The Queen
The Revd Edward Lewis, chief executive of the Hospital Chaplaincies Council, has been appointed as a chaplain to Her Majesty The Queen, Buckingham Palace announced on Friday (1st February).....
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| Dec
2007 |
Taking
the pain out of dying with peace, love and
understanding
After
a difficult life, the woman facing death in the
hospice was too angry with God to contemplate a
visit from the chaplain, the Rev Anton Muller. But
the Anglican cleric was determined to find out
why, in spite of the drugs and palliative care,
the woman remained in great distress....
[read
full article by Ruth Gledhill in The Times,
Tuesday 11 December 2007...]
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