All End of life care articles – Page 6
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HSJ PartnersBe prepared: Ensuring winter pressures are not so bleak
How winter pressures affect readmissions
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CommentGet ahead and plan your end of life care before it's too late
Make your choices known on end of life care
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HSJ Partners
New care model gives patients 24/7 access to end of life care
Commissioning end of life care services
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HSJ PartnersTwitter chat round-up: Unnecessary hospital readmissions in winter
Marie Curie Twitter chat
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HSJ Partners
Twitter chat: Explore the cost of end of life care
Join the debate on the cost of delivering care in the community
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HSJ PartnersCoordinated systems help ensure people die where they choose
Explore the potential of electronic coordination systems
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HSJ PartnersSupport end of life care at home through partnership working
Marie Curie makes a difference in Durham and Darlington
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NewsRevealed: Bidders for £1.2bn cancer and end of life care contracts
The NHS and independent sector organisations which have reached the next stage of bidding for two huge contracts to run cancer and end of life care services in Staffordshire have been revealed
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HSJ PartnersInvesting in community based end of life care is a win-win
Phil McCarvill of Marie Curie Cancer Care reflects on a new report from the Nuffield Trust
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HSJ KnowledgeWork together to provide the best end of life care
Use partnerships to ensure people have a ‘good’ death
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HSJ PartnersThe bottom line is commission for quality, not just savings
Don’t put end of life care at risk
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NewsMany boards 'ignore needs of dying'
The needs of dying people and their families are being “ignored” by many local health bodies, two charities have warned.
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CommentMedicalising common ailments is one of healthcare's greatest threats
It stops long term changes
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NewsMost doctors oppose assisted dying
Fewer than one in five doctors would be willing to help patients end their lives, according to a new poll.
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CommentHow partnering with hospices benefits the NHS frontline
Hospices make good partners for improving care locally
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CommentWhy the care system makes a 'good death' so difficult
My Dad’s experience revealed shortcomings
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HSJ Local£1.2bn Staffordshire procurement defended
Most cancer and end of life care services in Staffordshire are unlikely to change providers following a £1.2bn contract procurement, one of the directors behind the commissioning process has said.
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NewsPoll: Public back 'right to die' law change
Almost three-quarters of Britons support a change in the law on the right to die, an opinion poll has found ahead of the first parliamentary test for legislation on the issue.
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NewsTrusts to be inspected against new end of life care priorities
Trusts will be inspected against new national priorities for end of life care, they have been warned
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NewsNew end of life care regime set out
Medics have been given a new alternative to the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway which was axed last year amid claims that it was being used to cover up poor care.