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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.

[read full article by Michele...]


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. .....

[read full press release...]        

[listen to the Bishop]


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).....

[read full press release...]


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...]


Aug 2007

"My patients need to talk about that" 

For someone who spends most of her life confronting death , Dawn Allan is surprisingly cheerful. .....

[read full article by Barry McDonaldIt in Glasgow ‘Evening Times’, 
Friday August 31st 2007...]



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