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Serious illness: the things people say - The Guardian 23/04/12

Mon Apr 23 06:16:57 +0000 2012

Deborah Orr recently listed 10 things not to say to someone who is seriously ill. Readers responded with their horror stories, guilty confessions and advice. Here are some highlights

Tags: Communication Palliative Care Health News The Guardian

No way to guarantee a 'good death' - The Guardian 16th March 2010

Wed Mar 17 05:33:33 +0000 2010

"We don't talk about death or make preparations as we should. But you can't always stop dying being nasty, brutal or chaotic"

Tags: Palliative Care Health News UHN Mortality The Guardian

Terminally ill patients 'being penalised by Nice for having rare conditions' - Daily Telegraph 9th February 2010

Wed Feb 10 07:36:20 +0000 2010

"Terminally ill patients are being “penalised” for having rare conditions charities have warned after a kidney cancer medication was ruled too expensive for the NHS. "

Tags: Palliative Care Cost-Effectiveness Evidence Based Practice Drug Therapy Health News UHN Daily Telegraph

Heavy sedation of patients prevents them from having 'good death', Catholic church warns - Daily Telegraph 3rd January 2010

Wed Feb 03 08:01:01 +0000 2010

"Heavy sedation of patients in their final days prevents them from the opportunity of having a “good death”, according to the Roman Catholic Church. "

Tags: Palliative Care Drug Therapy Mortality Ethics Religion Daily Telegraph UHN Health News

Doctor backs law change to help terminally ill die - The Guardian 1st January 2010

Sun Jan 03 17:14:48 +0000 2010

"Ann McPherson, author of Teenage Health Freak, says assisted dying should be option within palliative care"

Tags: Euthanasia Suicide Ethics Palliative Care Health News UHN The Guardian

Baby RB faces 'miserable sad and pitiful existence' - Daily Telegraph 2nd November 2009

Tue Nov 03 07:18:14 +0000 2009

"A desperately ill baby who has been in intensive care since birth should be allowed to die in peace or he will end up living a “miserable, sad and pitiful existence”, a court heard. "

Tags: Jurisprudence Health News UHN Palliative Care Critical Care Neonatology Mortality Daily Telegraph

Parents clash in court over taking child off life support - The Guardian 2nd November 2009

Tue Nov 03 07:07:18 +0000 2009

"A mother supporting a legal attempt to take her severely disabled baby boy off the ventilator that keeps him alive said today her son's "intolerable suffering" had to outweigh her grief at his death. The boy, known as RB for legal reasons, was born last year with a rare condition that severely limits the ability to breathe and move limbs."

Tags: Jurisprudence Health News UHN Palliative Care Critical Care Neonatology Mortality The Guardian

Mother: why my baby should be allowed to die - The Times 2nd November 2009

Tue Nov 03 06:53:11 +0000 2009

"A mother at the centre of a legal wrangle over a gravely ill baby today told why she felt her son should be allowed to die. Anthony Fairweather, a solicitor acting for the boy's mother, said: "RB’s mother has sat by her son’s bedside every day since he was born. Every day she has seen the pain he experiences just to survive. "

Tags: Jurisprudence Health News UHN Palliative Care Critical Care Neonatology Mortality The Times

Baby RB: Tug of love as baby's mother says his life support can be turned off but father goes to court to stop it - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009

Tue Nov 03 06:50:02 +0000 2009

"A heartbroken mother took centre stage on Monday as the High Court was asked to let her seriously disabled son die. She is backing a hospital's application for the year-old baby to be taken off life support. The baby's father, however, insists he must live and says a simple operation could even lead to him being cared for at home. "

Tags: Jurisprudence Health News UHN Palliative Care Critical Care Neonatology Mortality Daily Mail

My cancer heartbreak: How do you tell your children mummy might die? - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009

Tue Nov 03 06:37:03 +0000 2009

"Can there be a conversation more difficult for a mother than the one where you have to tell your children you have cancer? The one where you have to prepare them for the fact that you have an illness that might kill you. An illness that, at the very least, will rob you of your hair and your strength, and take you away from them for long periods, while you fight for your survival in hospital."

Tags: Breast Cancer Bereavement Mortality Palliative Care UHN Health News Daily Mail

More tests for right-to-life baby - BBC Health News 2nd November 2009

Mon Nov 02 19:15:48 +0000 2009

"A fresh medical assessment is to be carried out on a baby boy at the centre of a "right-to-life" legal dispute, a High Court judge heard on Monday. The one-year-old, known as Baby RB for legal reasons, was born with a rare, genetic muscle condition that makes it hard for him to breathe independently."

Tags: Jurisprudence Health News UHN Palliative Care Critical Care Neonatology Mortality BBC Health News

Doctors admit to practising 'slow euthanasia' on terminally-ill patients - Daily Mail 29th October 2009

Thu Oct 29 09:03:38 +0000 2009

"One in five doctors admit to keeping the terminally-ill heavily sedated until they die, in what critics have dubbed 'slow euthanasia'. A poll of nearly 3,000 doctors found that 18.7 per cent had administered drugs to keep patients suffering from painful conditions such as cancer unconscious for hours at a time."

Tags: Palliative Care Euthanasia Health News UHN Daily Mail

TAMASIN DAY-LEWIS: Daniel and I are sure Mama believed she was spending her final days in a five-star hotel, not a hospital - Daily Mail 25th October 2009

Sun Oct 25 06:20:47 +0000 2009

"My mother went to heaven a month early. Being an actress, she was always a stickler for time: her fear of losing a job or arriving late for a performance or audition (unthinkable) ran deep. Arriving early was something she instilled in my brother and me almost from birth. We both arrived on time for that, too. She didn't go to heaven before she had been through hell. An unnecessary hell that nobody should have to either go through or experience with a member of their family."

Tags: Palliative Care Mortality Health News UHN Daily Mail

Third of doctors act to shorten lives of dying - The Guardian 23rd October 2009

Sat Oct 24 07:45:38 +0000 2009

"Around a third of doctors say they have given drugs to terminally ill patients or withdrawn treatment, knowing or intending that it would shorten their life, research reveals. A study of doctors in charge of the last hours of almost 3,000 people finds decisions almost always have to be made on whether to give drugs to relieve pain that could shorten life and whether to continue resuscitation and artificial feeding."

Tags: Palliative Care Euthanasia Ethics Medical Staff Health News UHN The Guardian

Palliative and End of Life Care - The Bolton Scenario - The Bolton News 21st October 2009

Thu Oct 22 06:07:23 +0000 2009

"NHS Bolton hosts the local End of Life Care (EoLC) Strategy but the ability to deliver care which meets the needs of individuals and their families and carers is very dependent on partnership working across the NHS, social services, the hospice and the voluntary sector."

Tags: Palliative Care Quality Health News Interagency Relations GMHN The Bolton News

More training needed following concerns about death pathway: cancer tsar - Daily Telegraph 17th October 2009

Sat Oct 17 17:45:52 +0000 2009

"Doctors and nurses need more training in how to care for people who are dying, Mike Richards, the Government's cancer tsar, has said, following concerns over the controversial 'death pathway' scheme."

Tags: Palliative Care Resuscitation Ethics Cancer Health UHN News Daily Telegraph

Patients should not be resuscitated 'unless they have specifically agreed' - Daily Telegraph 17th October 2009

Sat Oct 17 17:45:26 +0000 2009

"Patients should not be resuscitated unless they have specifically agreed to the procedure, which can be traumatic and has “appalling” success rates, a doctor has urged. "

Tags: Palliative Care Resuscitation Ethics Health News UHN Daily Telegraph

Shadowmancer author Graham Taylor stops writing to care for sick daughter - Daily Telegraph 15th October 2009

Fri Oct 16 05:14:00 +0000 2009

"Graham Taylor, one of Britain's best-selling international authors, is ending his career prematurely to look after his daughter, who has developed an incurable disease. "

Tags: Palliative Care UHN Health News Parenting Daily Telegraph

Controversial 'death' pathway - Daily Telegraph 13th October 2009

Wed Oct 14 04:46:22 +0000 2009

"Concerns about the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway were first raised in The Daily Telegraph last month, when experts warned that some patients were being denied drugs and fluids after it had been wrongly decided that they were dying. "

Tags: Palliative Care Ethics NHS Health News Clinical Guidelines Clinical Governance UHN Daily Telegraph

Crosby's Jospice calls for NHS to pay more towards patients’ care - Liverpool Echo 12 October 2009

Tue Oct 13 05:30:23 +0000 2009

"A MERSEYSIDE hospice is appealing for health bodies to pay more towards patients’ care to compensate for a drop in charity donations. Jospice, in Crosby, is finding it harder to raise funds during the recession."

Tags: Palliative Care Financial Management Health Economics NHS Health News CMHN Liverpool Echo