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Hospice Care in Focus: end of life care and homelessness - St Gemma's Hospice
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Hospice Care in Focus: End of life care and homelessness

Over the past few years, St Gemma's Hospice in Yorkshire delivered a project to address end of life care for people experiencing homelessness.
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Dr Tariq
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Death and dying: a doctor’s perspective

Dr Naseem Tariq shares his experience of being an end of life patient and how this changed his work as a doctor.
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Dan Hewitt and his mother
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Dying with dignity

ITV political correspondent Dan Hewitt lost his mum in 2014. The hospice support she received at the end of her life helped her to die at home, with her family around her.
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Lewan De Jager and his family
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Luwan's story

When Luwan was diagnosed with leukaemia at just three years old, his family didn’t know what to do.
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A Family Christening photo
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A happy occasion: patient’s grandsons are christened at hospice

When Paula, who is being cared for on the Inpatient Unit at Thames Hospice in Berkshire said she wished to see her two grandsons christened, hospice staff happily obliged.
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Emma Dixon, Director of Clinical Services at St Anne's Hospice
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How St Anne’s Hospice is implementing Covid-19 testing

Emma Dixon, Director of Clinical Services at St Ann’s Hospice in Greater Manchester, writes about adapting services and how they implemented a rigorous Covid-19 testing programme...
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