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Study reveals ‘patchy and inconsistent’ end-of-life care

03 Sep 2024

One in three dying people in England and Wales was severely or overwhelmingly affected by pain in the last week of life, with bereaved people...

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Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice chaired the first Vice-Chancellor’s Dialogues

The Vice-Chancellor’s Dialogues: Is assisted dying compassionate, or dangerous for society?

09 Nov 2023

On 8 November 2023, Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice chaired the first Vice-Chancellor’s Dialogues. The event launched a series of...

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Public attitudes towards end-of-life care in progressive neurological illness are conflicted, study reveals

05 Apr 2017

Public attitudes in UK and USA reveal support both for life-sustaining interventions and for measures to enable peaceful death in progressive...

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Opinion: Here’s what people in their 90s really think about death

19 May 2016

Jane Fleming (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) discusses attitudes to death among the very old.

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“It’s not worth me having a long-life lightbulb”: Attitudes to death among the very old

05 Apr 2016

Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and dying amongst the...

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‘Missing’ data complicate picture of where patients choose to die

10 Nov 2015

An NIHR-funded study from the University of Cambridge has raised questions about the widely-held assumption that most patients at the end of their...

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