Beds for end-of-life patients at a community hospital in Daventry have been paused.

When you have non-small -lung cancer (NSCLC), the disease and treatments for it can take a toll on how you feel. You may have pain, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, depression, and shortness of breath.

The DoH has now pledged £1.1m of funding for NI's four hospices, and £500,000 for the Children's Hospice.

Patients in their final weeks or months of life can turn to hospice care to manage their transition. But until then, patients have another option to help them live with serious illnesses. KERA’s Sam ...

Palliative care isn’t always a part of just end-of-life care. It can be used at any point if you have incurable cancer to improve your quality of life. Some cancer treatments are curative, while ...

Palliative care, sometimes called supportive care, can improve quality of life for people with chronic or other serious illnesses. People with serious, life threatening illnesses may feel as though ...

Access to specialist palliative care ‘remains inconsistent’, nurses have warned, calling for better investment in the ...

Editor’s Note: This post is also coauthored by Robert Berenson, an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. This post is the fifth in a periodic Health Affairs Blog series on palliative care, health ...

There are few certainties in healthcare, but one is that hospitals will generally be facing an increasingly older population. And with age comes more chronically and severely ill patients. This is a ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Ken Hajas, left, ...