Resources

It is wonderfully inspiring when someone finds the time, energy, wisdom and inspiration to bring about a change that helps so many in crisis.

Dame Cicely Saunders had a young close friend dying of cancer and was very distressed by all he was going through. She determined to draw on her nursing and social care experience to set up places to train staff to care for those, like her friend, for whom there was no cure or helpful treatment, and who were facing potentially increasing pain of body, mind and spirit.

As a result, St Christopher’s Hospice was founded.

100,000 people who could benefit from palliative care die without receiving it. There’s a clear socio economic gradient to this.

How often do we hear that a person’s loved one had a ‘bad death’ with traumatic crises,lack of communication or poor support? What can we do to ensure this doesn’t happen to you or your loved one?

Mark Thomas, a Church of England clergyman writes about his encounters with those who are dying

Review of book by Dr Kathryn Mannix

Grieving for a loved one can be long and painful. This is a helpful article.

Important decisions about how we want to be cared for should we become seriously ill need to involve conversations with family, carers, doctors, and those holding legal power of attorney, about the care we would want

Families commonly report that it comes as a relief once the subject is brought out into the open.