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Dying Matters Awareness Week

Dying Matters Awareness Week brings together individuals and organisations to open up the conversation around dying, death and bereavement.

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Being with someone when they die

Recognising when death is close will help you say those important goodbyes and prepare for what is to come.

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End of life care workforce development

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End of life care plans provide relief and healing

Planning for the end of life can be a profound and positive experience, as one woman discovered.

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A good death

"My 95-year-old nan had the death I would want: at home, in peace and surrounded by love."

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Thousands of Brits dying every year without their wishes being met, research for the Dying Matters campaign reveals

Brits do not have sufficient plans in place for the end of their lives because they are unaware of what to do and unsure of how to talk about it, according to research published by the Dying Matters campaign today.

In A Good Place to die: A briefing for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2021

Death, dying and bereavement are more prominent in the public consciousness than for a generation. The deaths of tens of thousands of people from COVID-19 has meant that we are collectively and individually reckoning with loss on a daily basis, on news websites, on social media, and on TV and radio bulletins.

Hospice UK joins forces and provides a new home for The Gold Standards Framework

Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice and end of life care, is delighted to be joining forces and providing a new home for The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Centre, the leading provider of quality improvement training and accreditation in end of life care for generalist frontline health and social care staff.

No awkward silences please: Grieving people think saying the wrong thing is better than nothing

To mark Dying Matters Awareness Week (May 11-17), Hospice UK has released new findings from Savanta ComRes that show that 72% of those bereaved in the last five years would rather friends and colleagues said the wrong thing than nothing at all, and 62% say that being happy to listen was one of the top three most useful things someone did after they were bereaved.

Leading mental health charities unite to bring round the clock support to our frontline

• New frontline mental health platform supported by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge • The Duke will chair a roundtable with emergency services charities later today