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Dr Malik Dinata, a trainee GP

27 February 2020

What it’s like to be a trainee GP in a hospice

Dr Malik Dinata is a trainee GP who has chosen to spend four months on rotation at St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth, to see their service through his eyes and find out how his exper...

Beth, a children's counsellor at Birmingham St Mary's Hospice

26 February 2020

How I teach children to cope with grief

Beth is a Children’s Counsellor at Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice, where she supports children and young people who have a family member being cared for by the charity, both duri...

The Walking Dead group at Trinity Hospice in Blackpool

24 February 2020

Patients start club outside of hospice to support each other

Patients from the Day Therapy Unit at Blackpool’s Trinity Hospice have formed a boys club with a difference. The members all have a terminal illness, and they call themselves Th...

Barry, attending Birmingham St Mary's Hospice

Hospice care stories

21 February 2020

How hospices help: Barry

Like a lot of people, Barry was scared when he heard the word ‘hospice’. But after using the Space to Breathe programme at Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice he discovered that hos...

Palliative care workers attending to a patient

14 February 2020

The role of palliative care in infectious disease outbreaks

Joan Marston, Founder of PalCHASE (Palliative Care in Humanitarian Aid Situations and Emergencies) writes about the challenges to providing palliative to people affected by infecti...

Magnolia House in Birmingham

11 February 2020

Magnolia House is a place to honour loss

A facility located at Birmingham Women and Children’s Hospital is providing a safe space for families who have children with terminal conditions.