People facing death or bereavement to be helped through new NHS website launched in Leicestershire
The site aims to be a comprehansive guide with details about useful health and care services
The last year of the coronavirus pandemic has shown the need for expert advice and support (Image: Getty Images)
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As one of our team of four doctors –based across the charity’s Northfleet-based inpatient and outpatient units, as well as within the community –Dr Majeed’s role is more than a clinical one. In line with our ethos of ‘holistic care’, which pledges to treat the
patient and their family, rather than the illness alone, Dr Majeed’s chief responsibility is to understand the individual needs of the patient.
“We look at their wishes; what they want to do in the last few days and weeks and months of their life,” Dr Majeed says. “Spending more time with the patient is something we do. We try to understand their social, psychological, financial, and emotional issues, as well as their spiritual and religious needs. Everything is looked at on both a holistic and a microscopic level. That’s what makes a difference.”
Event hosted in Derry tomorrow will encourage people to talk about death
Special event being held to discuss getting things in order before you die
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A Derry group will take part in a webinar tomorrow to highlight issues around death.
Compassionate Communities NW alongside partners are hosting a webinar as part of Dying Matters Week 2021 which encourages everyone to think ahead to a time when you will need to make key decisions for yourself or for others.
The webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 12, from 10am to 12.30pm.
The speakers will include local solicitor Gerard Guckian, a former chair of the Western Trust, who will speak about legal issues surrounding death.
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10:33 AM May 5, 2021
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12:43 PM May 5, 2021
Dr Sarah Bell, medical director at Garden House Hospice Care, will be answering your questions about end of life planning
- Credit: Garden House Hospice Care
Garden House Hospice Care is joining national charity Hospice UK for their annual campaign, Dying Matters Awareness Week, which runs from May 10 to 16.
Dying Matters Awareness Week is a chance to break down the taboo of talking about dying, death and bereavement, and open up the conversation about the subject, which affects everyone.
This year s theme for Dying Matters Awareness Week is #InAGoodPlace
- Credit: Garden House Hospice Care
Charity launches £1 appeal this May to raise vital funds for hospice care in County Durham A CHARITY is launching a new appeal this May to encourage residents to donate £1 each with hopes of raising much-needed funds. Nurse-led hospice Willow Burn, in Lanchester, County Durham, hopes residents of Derwentside will donate £1 to the charity in a bid to fund up to 20% of the vital hospice services. The new campaign is part of ‘Willow Week’ (May 10-16, 2021), the hospice’s annual awareness week, which was first launched in 2020 to shine a spotlight on the work of the nursing, care and counselling team at Willow Burn.