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Dorset healthcare providers partner for end of life project

03 June 2020

Dorset healthcare providers partner for end of life project

A group of healthcare providers across Dorset are working on a new project focusing on sharing end of life experiences, thanks to a one-off grant of £40,000 made by Dorset Clinica...

Jack

03 June 2020

“Maintaining contact during Covid-19 is crucial for bereaved children”

Before the Covid-19 outbreak began, the bereavement team at St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle upon Tyne would usually meet over 30 children aged between 4 and 18 each week to offe...

Accord Hospice

02 June 2020

Video celebrates hospice project with local nursery

Accord Hospice in Paisley, Scotland, have produced a video to celebrate their intergenerational work with a local nursery. Charge Nurse Alison Auld tells us more. When a project th...

Volunteers

01 June 2020

"When you give a patient your time, you see how happy it makes them"

Today marks the start of Volunteers’ Week. All four members of the Burke family are volunteers at Saint Francis Hospice in Essex - here they share what motivates them to give the...

Sarah West

01 June 2020

Tackling COVID-19 together: helping people at the end of their lives

Like so many charities and businesses, the COVID-19 crisis has forced Hospice UK to innovate rapidly.

lisa

29 May 2020

On the frontline: “We can hear nurses’ laughter again”

Lisa Church, Director of Nursing and Family Services at Thames Hospice in Windsor, tells ehospice how the charity is managing during the pandemic.