Britain’s end-of-life and palliative care services are a national travesty. It should be a basic human right to die with comfort: and yet, according to Hospice UK, of the half a million who die each year, 100,000 are not given the vital care they need. This means addressing the social care crisis too, which has inevitable knock-on effects on palliative and end-of-life services. “It is a catastrophic failure in medical training to not deliver a proper end-of-life education,” explains the Association for Palliative Medicine’s Dr Amy Proffitt. We should all expect to be able to die with comfort, dignity and love.

Source: The Guardian January 31, 2020 07:52 UTC