Palliative Care News

While research has shown that the toll cancer takes on the mental health of patients can lessen chances of recovery and outcomes, medicine has been slow to react to this knowledge.

A hospice outreach team pioneered in Cumbernauld is now being extended across North Lanarkshire.

Mention the Ramblers and pictures of stout men with rucksacks trampling over mountains singing The Happy Wanderer come to mind.

Fred Phelps is dying. The founder of the Westboro Baptist Church , according to his estranged sons, is close to death.

Upper Bann DUP MLA Sydney Anderson is urging people to wear a daffodil and make a donation during March for the Marie Curie's Great Daffodil Appeal launched at Parliament Buildings, Stormont.

In response to the Agency for Health Care Administration's recent approval for Hospice of Citrus and the Nature Coast to expand services into Hernando County, Hernando Pasco Hospice has filed a petition for a formal administrative hearing to contest the approval.

Diss, Norfolk. Diss Friend's group for EACH pictured from left David Beale, Jenny Bailey, Mary Channell, Merle Channell, Sombra Patrick and Pauline Manson ANL-141103-104857001 In its 18 years a Diss volunteer group has managed to raise 280,000 for East Anglia's Children's Hospices .

The organization provides residential and healthcare service for children and elder citizens.

Ethical issues at end of life are not primarily medical or science issues but social, legal, religious, and cultural.

Staff at a chain of Callington Spar shops will undertake a 300-mile cycle to celebrate their 30th anniversary - and raise money for charity along the way.

A High Peak hospice is part of a group from across the north west which has come together to launch a pioneering TV advertising campaign.

A Berkhamsted husband and wife have signed up to complete the annual Chilterns Cycle Challenge fundraiser for Rennie Grove Hospice Care - on a tandem.

It aims to help avert the need for patients to enter hospital by offering assistance when GP surgeries and other community health care services are closed.

As Dolores Esposito makes the rounds of hospice patients at Holy Redeemer Hospital each Monday with her dog, Daisy, she doesn't tell them why she and the brawny red golden retriever became a pet-therapy team.

Joseph Slade might not think he deserves any medals but the U.S. Veterans Affairs and Cornerstone Hospice and Palliative Care made sure he received the honoraria he earned for his service in the U.S. Navy.

Ultimate Software , a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced today that Hospice of Marion County, a Florida-based provider of hospice and healthcare services, is benefiting from Ultimate's people-centric approach to service, rapid deployment of cloud technology, and the UltiPro solution's workforce analytics.

Tanveer P. Mir, MD, MACP, Director of Outpatient Palliative Care at the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, has been named Chair-elect of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians , the nation's largest medical specialty organization.

Actress Bronagh Gallagher, Michael McCafferty, centre, chairperson of trustees, and Dr. Keith Munro, chief executive, beside the Foyle Hospice Memory Tree.

Buy this photo Margaret Manley has discovered a new kind of job satisfaction working as a volunteer nurse at Prospect Hospice Picture: STUART HARRISON AS A growing number of patients require palliative or end-of life care, volunteer nurses are becoming crucial and increasingly sought-out members of the Prospect Hospice team.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The parent company for Hospice Compassus , which once operated in Alabama, has agreed to pay $3.92 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false reimbursement claims to the federal government for patients treated at its hospice facilities, federal authorities announced today.