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• The Guardian view on hospices: these special places can’t afford to be hidden | Editorial

  17-07-2024 19:52
  
  Palliative care charities are facing a funding crisis – they should be included in Lord Darzi’s review of the NHSClose to 600,000 people die in the UK annually – a figure that was higher during the pandemic, but has since fallen back. More than half are at home or in a care home; most of the rest are in hospital. But for about 28,000 people who need specialist end-of-life care (nearly 5% of all deaths), a hospice is where they receive it. A much larger number receive palliative
  
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• When social housing policy leaves children bereaved and homeless | Letters

  17-07-2024 18:56
  Readers respond to an article that lays bare how relatives can find themselves evicted after a death in the familyKwajo Tweneboa’s piece about how bereaved relatives are immediately evicted from social housing struck home (The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days, 16 July). When my mother died in 2000, we had a week to clear the flat on the estate she lived on with us for 40 years. Just about time to clear the kitchen and bathroom, and di
  
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• What was missing from the king’s speech? From votes for 16-year-olds to leasehold reform

  17-07-2024 15:54
  
  A crackdown on the use of overseas workers and an AI bill were also missing from the speechKing’s speech – live updatesThe king’s speech may have contained 40 proposed bills, but some previously mooted ideas were missing. Here are the proposals it could have contained but did not. Continue reading...
  
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