She now specialises in palliative care, partly because it is centred on the patient rather than on any disease. Genuinely, I couldn’t give a damn about wrinkles or middle age or putting on weight or my first grey hairs or reading specs – these are reasons to celebrate. Palliative medicine is an opportunity to practise the kind of medicine that should be universal. But it is only between 25% and 33% of palliative medicine that is NHS-funded – the rest comes from charities. Katharine House needs to raise £3.5m a year to care for the dying patients of Oxfordshire.

Source: The Guardian January 25, 2020 16:01 UTC