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Northern Echo: Helping people take a practical look at death
07 September 2010
The Echo reports that death is being discussed frankly in Teeside thanks to an initiative designed to help people cope during a loved one's last days. Views on the inevitable rite of passage will be fed into Bereavement Information Packs being developed by NHS Tees.
Tackling emotions is covered in "When someone is dying" booklet and the practicalities are included in the "What to do when someone dies" guide, the first time such guides have been created.
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End of life care is compromised as ‘crucial’ services are denied funds
01 September 2010
Primary care trusts spent just a quarter of the funds they were given to pay for end of life care on direct nursing provision to support patients dying at home.
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Good progress, but a lot more to do...
24 August 2010
The Dying Matters Coalition and The National Council for Palliative Care and respond to the publication of the End of Life Care Strategy Second Annual Report.
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The vital questions of life and death at the end of our journey
20 August 2010
If we think about it for more than five seconds at a time – and the actual time spent is presumably related to age and current state of health – most of us would surely choose to die peacefully and quietly at home in our own bed, with loved ones close by.
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New report highlights that with a death every minute in England, we still are not dying where we want
19 August 2010
Report gives national and regional information on where and how we die
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NICE names ‘end of life care’ as one of its top priorities
17 August 2010
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has announced ‘end of life care’ as one of its nine new quality standards to be developed during 2010-11.
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Improving public awareness of end of life issues among older people in North Lancashire: A peer education approach
13 August 2010
There is increasing interest nationally and locally in raising public awareness about end of life issues, particularly around planning for the future with respect to care needs. Local PCT, NHS North Lancashire, has recently funded a research project to develop a locally appropriate peer education programme on end of life issues for older adults.
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Disease lottery revealed in end of life care provision
11 August 2010
Nurses must change their approach to end of life care for chronic disease, senior nurses have warned in response to research shared exclusively with Nursing Times. Patients with respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are significantly more likely to die in hospital than at home, compared with patients with cancer, according to the first report from the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network.
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Dying Matters stresses importance of making a Will following will-writing scam investigation
09 August 2010
Dying Matters, the 10,000 strong coalition working across England to raise awareness of dying, death and bereavement, has welcomed the latest Panorama investigation into the Will writing industry. Eve Richardson, Chief Executive of Dying Matters, has spoken out to remind the public that making a Will is vitally important.
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Thousand still dying alone without friends or family support - Dying Matters underlines the need to combat social isolation among older people
09 August 2010
The Local Government Association’s Public Health Funerals Survey 2010, released this week, has revealed a worrying increase in taxpayer-funded ‘pauper’s graves’. Last year, around 2,200 people were buried or cremated by councils across England and Wales, either because they died alone with no traceable family or friends, or because family and friends were unable or unwilling to pay for a funeral.
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