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Awareness Week Events
There are hundreds of Dying Matters Awareness Week events happening up and down the county. View them here, or publicise your own.
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15 May 2013
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and the Dying Matters Coalition are holding a major national conference on end of life and bereavement care on Friday (17 May) as part of Dying Matters Awareness...
19 April 2013
Bereaved teenagers are being offered an innovative new course which uses cooking as therapy while providing vital life skills.
18 April 2013
The work of the Dying Matters Coalition is to be extended to Wales as part of the Welsh Government’s new End of Life Care Delivery Plan.
21 March 2013
With just two weeks to go until England’s 152 Health and Wellbeing Boards take on new legal responsibilities as part of the Government’s health reforms, almost half have failed to set out what they will do to meet the needs of dying people, according to research published today by the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC).
20 March 2013
The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) and Marie Curie have jointly published a new guide to help the public hold politicians to account on end of life care.
26 February 2013
Dying Matters and the National Council for Palliative Care are calling for improved training of staff following publication of a report claiming that less than half of the 80 per cent of care home residents with dementia or severe memory loss enjoy a good quality of life.
7 February 2013
Eve Richardson, Chief Executive of Dying Matters and the National Council for Palliative Care, has condemned the 'scandalous lack of care' revealed by the publication this week of a damning report into standards at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
6 February 2013
A new report from the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network highlights that people with cardiovascular diseases are more likely to die in hospital than people dying from other conditions.
30 January 2013
Residents from across Lewisham in South East London came together this week at a packed council chamber at the local Town Hall to discuss the importance of taking care of the future and planning ahead on end of life issues. Dying Matters Communications Director Joe Levenson, pictured, reports.
15 January 2013
The review of how the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is being used in practice is to be chaired by crossbench peer Baroness Julia Neuberger, Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb has announced.
7 January 2013
Mandy Paine, one of the National Council for Palliative Care and Dying Matters' most avid supporters, has recorded a second song to raise awareness of our work.
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Poll
Vote for your favourite famous last words
“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.” Humphrey Bogart
6%
“I’m going home tonight.” James Brown
9%
“Love one another.” George Harrison
10%
"You see, this is how you die." Coco Chanel
5%
"If this is dying I don't think much of it." Lytton Strachey (British writer)
5%
“That was a great game of golf, fellers.” Bing Crosby
2%
"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers." Walter de la Mare (British poet and author)
5%
“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” Steve Jobs
7%
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.” Oscar Wilde
13%
"It's all been rather lovely." John Le Mesurier (British actor)
27%
“I hope I haven’t bored you.” Elvis Presley
4%
"All my possessions for a moment of time." Queen Elizabeth I
7%
Total votes: 558
