Trisha Goddard’s appearance on Celebrity Big Brother is fighting the stigma of palliative care - LBC
Lesley Munro
@lesjoanne.bsky.social
Deputy CEO & Director of Patient Care and Communities: Princess Alice Hospice
'I could live 30 years - but plan to die': Has assisted dying in Canada gone too far? - BBC News
NHS England chair: ‘Something’s gone wrong when pay imbalances are so severe’ - The Times and The Sunday Times
PM faces calls to exempt hospices from tax rises - BBC News
‘Having now made the decision to abolish NHS England, & while we still wait for the publication of the NHS 10 year plan, the government must be clear why this significant structural change at this time is necessary, & how it fits into their wider plans.' Read the full press release. buff.ly/mhsS47Y
Delighted to have attended the Surrey Downs awards last night. 2 awards for Princess Alice - impact in communities - individual ward ( bereavement ) and team award for compassionate neighbours. Great to see hospices recognised within the Place system. @hospiceuk.bsky.social
Yesterday Princess Alice Hospice welcomed Richard Meddings, Chair of NHSEngland, Duncan Burton our trustee and Chief Nursing Officer, England, and Toby Porter CEO of Hospice UK. A fantastic opportunity to showcase our work @tobyhporter.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social @nhsenglandldn.bsky.social
Bereaved families urge MPs to ‘remember’ them on assisted dying Bill - The Independent
Wrestling with the ethics of assisted dying in Room 10 - The Times and The Sunday Times
End-of-life care demand challenging for paramedics - BBC News
Thousands of patients with sickle cell disease could now benefit from a “ground-breaking” gene-editing therapy on the NHS, thought to be a “functional cure” for the disease ⬇️
NHS approves ‘game-changing’ therapy for sickle cell disease
thetimes.com
Excellent news, in what was one of the worst NHS and state cover-ups we’ve ever seen. About time. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Payouts for victims of UK infected blood scandal to be extended to families
Parents, children and siblings will be able to claim under new laws to be passed by March
theguardian.com
‘Absolutely devastated’: Inside Durham hospice battling £1.3m black hole www.channel4.com/news/absolut...
‘Absolutely devastated’: Inside Durham hospice battling £1.3m black hole
Across the UK, hospices are struggling, with many forced to cut staff and services as the sector faces the most challenging time in its history.
channel4.com
This afternoon committee is hearing from palliative care specialists - a sector which has voiced some of the loudest concerns about assisted dying. Concerns that there is no genuine choice, due to lack of hospice care. And debate over whether that'll improve or not if AD passes.
Both Chris Whitty and Chief Nursing Officer Duncan Burton says NHS staff are already trained to spot coercion/capacity in healthcare. But Burton does make clear that further training would be required if assisted dying was legalised and time would be needed to roll training out.
The BMJ desk-rejected our paper on safety in remote consultations. It later won Research Paper of the Year Award. Now BMJ is publishing a ‘hot pick’ summary of our findings written by someone else. Ah well, so long as the word gets out I guess! @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...
How to make remote consultations safer
Payne R, Clarke A, Swann N, et al. Patient safety in remote primary care encounters: multimethod qualitative study combining Safety I and Safety II analysis. BMJ Quality and Safety 2023;0:1–14. To re...
bmj.com
"We’ve little alternative but to think seriously about how civil society organisations can not just survive but do yet more with even less" - @martyndrake.bsky.social
Martyn Drake: New strategies for financial sustainability
Trying to squeeze out yet more costs is a road so well-travelled there’s barely any tarmac left
thirdsector.co.uk
📣📣📣 We are looking for health and care professionals with experience caring for adults with advanced illness, and working with ethnically diverse populations, to join an expert consultation. Please contact us if you are interested 🙏 See flyer 👇
A few important nots: - hospice is not a place - palliative care is not hospice - talking about death does not make people give up or die - at the end of life food does not make you stronger - taking morphine for advanced cancer pain does not mean you’re dying/an addict/giving up #palliativecare
Absolutely shocking that someone has got be to work and been stabbed. Thoughts with the nurse, their colleagues and of course their family and friends
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y agoNurse critically injured in stabbing at Greater Manchester hospital A&E department
Another interesting @bmj.com piece for us all this morning. Anita Hannig on the medicalisation of dying and how we would do well to reclaim it as a human event rather than a clinical one. Link: www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Gustav Adolf Clemens, Christmas Eve at the hospital, c. 1912. Gratitude and thanks to all of the nurses, midwives and nursing associates who won’t be with their loved ones this Christmas because they’ll be caring for us.
Fantastic concert last night by Gospel Collective Farnham. Somebody even sang a solo 🎶 #gospelchoir #gospelmusic
The planned rise in employer National Insurance contributions “threatens the very sustainability of Northern Ireland’s voluntary sector”, the chief executive of the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action has said
National Insurance hike ‘threatens the very sustainability’ of Northern Ireland’s voluntary sector
The increase could cause widespread service reductions and job losses, the chief executive of Nicva says
thirdsector.co.uk
People having a heart attack or a stroke are being asked to get themselves to hospital after dialling 999, as surging sickness levels plunge the NHS into another winter crisis www.thetimes.com/article/b9d2...
Heart attack patients advised to get themselves to A&E
With six of England’s ten ambulance trusts at risk of service failure, another winter of scandal and tragedy is upon us
thetimes.com
Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK, responds to the result of today's vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Read the full statement: www.hospiceuk.org/latest-from-...
