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2. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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   Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, meaning "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimising quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [1] Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist.

3. Sue Ryder (charity) - Wikipedia

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   Sue Ryder is a British palliative and bereavement support charity based in the United Kingdom.Formed as The Sue Ryder Foundation in 1953 by World War II Special Operations Executive volunteer Sue Ryder, the organisation provides care and support for people living with terminal illnesses and neurological conditions, as well as individuals who are coping with a bereavement.

4. Marie Curie (charity) - Wikipedia

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   Marie Curie Nurses and Health Care Assistants provide home hospice care for thousands of people with terminal illnesses across the UK every year. This includes managing their pain, and providing practical care and giving emotional support. Marie Curie's nursing service also provide practical and emotional support for families and carers.

5. Hospice and palliative medicine - Wikipedia

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   Palliative care got its start as hospice care delivered largely by caregivers at religious institutions. The first formal hospice was founded in 1948 by the British physician Dame Cicely Saunders in order to care for patients with terminal illnesses. [2] She defined key physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of distress in her work.

6. Healthcare in England - Wikipedia

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   The Emergency Department is always attached to an NHS general hospital. Private hospitals do not provide emergency care services. The NHS also provides end of life palliative care in the form of Palliative Care Specialist Nurses. The NHS can also commission the expertise of organisations in the voluntary sector to complement palliative care.

7. Assisted dying bill - latest: Esther Rantzen reacts to ... - AOL

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   The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care himself has even said that existing palliative care isn’t good enough. “But warm words won’t fix our broken end of life care system.

8. Health and legal experts among 73 academics to sign letter ...

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   Leading academic experts in the fields of health, end-of-life care and the legal system have joined together to sign an open letter opposing the assisted dying bill which MPs are due to debate on ...

9. Longest-serving MPs unite to oppose assisted dying - AOL

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   The UK's two longest-serving MPs have united to oppose the assisted dying bill, which is due to be debated in Parliament next week. In a joint article for the Guardian, Labour's Diane Abbott and ...