| New research study on the relationship between hospices and primary care trusts | 22 October 2008 | The Commission for the Compact in partnership with Help the Hospices has published new research looking at the vital relationship between charitable hospices and NHS Primary Care Trusts and focusing on how well the Compact is being implemented in relation to supportive and palliative care. |
| Hollywood star calls for hospice care as a human right | 16 October 2008 | Thousands of people in more than 70 countries throughout the world will be staging concerts and hosting other events to mark World Hospice and Palliative Care Day this Saturday, |
| Conference 2008 | 16 October 2008 | Details of the 2008 Help the Hospices conference/Forum of Chairmen of Independent Hospices Conference |
| Help the Hospices comment on recent events in the financial markets | 15 October 2008 | Local hospices, like all charities and organisations in every sector, are trying to assess the impact of recent turmoil in the financial markets. Help the Hospices knows many of its 183 member hospices have understandable concerns about how they might be affected. |
| Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health visits St Michael’s Hospice on St Michael’s Day. | 29 September 2008 | Health Secretary Alan Johnson today met staff, patients and volunteers at St Michael’s Hospice and heard first-hand about the only hospice service in East Sussex to offer 24-hour hands-on nursing care, helping people stay in their own homes for longer. |
| Hospice and palliative care: a human right | 25 September 2008 | Thousands of people in more than 70 countries around the world will be staging concerts and hosting other events to mark World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on 11 October 2008. |
| Audit Scotland Publishes Review of Palliative Care Services | 28 August 2008 | Audit Scotland has published a report into palliative care in Scotland |
| Support your local hospice to Light up a Life in 2008 | 18 August 2008 | This year’s Light up a Life appeal will see thousands of people of all ages celebrating the life of someone they loved at hundreds of events taking place right across the UK. |
| Leading organisations call for recognition of palliative care and pain treatment | 06 August 2008 | The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC), the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA) and different organisations from around the world will issue today a Joint Declaration and Statement of Commitment calling for the recognition of Palliative Care and Pain Treatment as Human Rights. |
| KPMG £1 million milestone marks hospice partnership success | 04 August 2008 | KPMG has raised £1 million for its staff-selected charity partner Help the Hospices, the hospice movement’s national charity. |
| Historic day for end of life care says Help the Hospices | 16 July 2008 | Help the Hospices, the hospices movement’s national charity, welcomed the publication of the first ever End of Life Care Strategy as a historic event in the delivery of future social and healthcare for patients and their families in England. |
| End of Life Care: Help the Hospices welcomes strategy publication | 16 July 2008 | David Praill, chief executive Help the Hospices commented, |
| Ulrich Engler for Help the Hospices, at the Goldsmiths’ Fair | 08 July 2008 | Exclusive event to benefit Help the Hospices. |
| Adopt a duck and you could win £10,000! | 14 July 2008 | On Sunday 31st August at 1.30pm hundreds of thousands of yellow plastic ducks will be launched onto the River Thames near Hampton Court Palace in an epic race that’s set to create a new world record. |
| End of life care: Help the Hospices responds to 'High Quality of Care For All' The NHS Next Stage Review report by Lord Darzi | 30 June 2008 | Help the Hospices, the hospices movement’s national charity, welcomed the inclusion of end of life care as one of the eight clinical pathways in Lord Darzi's review of the NHS today. |
| Research into Hospice Care and Primary Care Trusts starts | 20 June 2008 | A research study examining how well Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and local charitable hospices work together is being undertaken by the Commission for the Compact in partnership with Help the Hospices |
| Hospice winners amongst The Queen's Voluntary Awards 2008 | 16 June 2008 | Congratulations to the winners of The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2008. |
| Help the Hospices welcomes new National Strategy for Carers | 10 June 2008 | Help the Hospices welcomes the Government’s new National Strategy for Carers and the commitment to investing over £255 million to supporting carers. |
| Response to Department for International Development’s international HIV strategy | 10 June 2008 | Help the Hospices warmly welcomes the Department for International Development (DFID)’s newly published UK strategy for halting and reversing the spread of HIV in the developing world - Achieving Universal Access. |
| Comic raises more than a laugh on 410 mile trek | 06 June 2008 | Top comedian Mark Olver is walking 410 miles from his home town of Bristol to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, relying on the kindness of strangers for his accommodation en route. |
| Director of fundraising scoops top prize | 30 May 2008 | Maxine Blunden, director of fundraising at Help the Hospices, won the Professional Fundraising Rising Star award at the 17th annual Professional Fundraising Awards on 21 May 2008. |
| Hospice care helps those living with illness – not just facing the end of life | 30 May 2008 | Following recent reports in the media of cancer patients who survive the disease but fail to access the support they need to manage their symptoms. |
| Response to Department of Health £1m to improve NHS environments for dying and bereaved | 20 May 2008 | Help the Hospices, the hospice movement’s national charity, welcomes the announcement last week by the Department of Health of a £1m programme |
| National Gardens Scheme | 14 May 2008 | For more than 500,000 people every year, there’s nothing more satisfying than getting the opportunity to see real life “show” gardens as well as raising money for good causes, thanks to the National Gardens Scheme. |
| Help the Hospices appoints first chairman for new hospice advisory council | 01 May 2008 | Help the Hospices, the hospice movement’s national charity, has appointed the first chairman of its newly created Advisory Council. |
| Sunflower power out in force at the Flora London Marathon | 16 April 2008 | After months of gruelling training regimes, the big day finally arrived on Sunday 13 April |
| Toolkit brings care to terminally ill in resource-limited settings | 08 April 2008 | Millions of people with terminal illnesses continue to suffer unnecessarily because of the lack of palliative care in much of the world. Today a new initiative is announced to equip, empower and encourage the health professionals and families who care day in, day out for the terminally ill in places where the palliative care “gap” is most evident. |
| Clydesdale Bank supports hospice care | 14 March 2008 | Hospices across the UK will benefit from a new partnership between Help the Hospices and Clydesdale Bank. Bank employees will be pulling out all the stops to raise money for local hospice charities and Help the Hospices, the hospice movement’s national charity, over the Easter period. |
| Royal Mail - First 3 Year Charity Partnership Smashes Target | 04 April 2008 | The three-year partnership between Royal Mail Group and the hospice movement’s national charity Help the Hospices finishes today having raised nearly double its original fundraising target of £1 million*. |
| Yorkshire Bank supports hospice care | 14 March 2008 | Hospices across the UK will benefit from a new partnership between Help the Hospices and Yorkshire Bank. |
| Statement following release of survey commissioned by Marie Curie Cancer Care | 26 February 2008 | Help the Hospices, the hospice movement’s national charity, welcomed the release of a new survey commissioned by Marie Curie Cancer Care looking at people’s care preferences in the final stages of terminal illness. |
| Have you heard the one about the business gurus doing stand up comedy? | 19 February 2008 | Renowned UK business personalities last night took to the stage at London’s most famous comedy venue, the Comedy Store in Leicester Square, to raise over £10,800 for hospice care. |
| Assessing need and priority in bereavement services – new resource launched | 11 February 2008 | A new approach to help those in hospice and palliative care improve the way they assess bereaved people’s needs is offered in a new guide launched this month. |
| Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks partner Help the Hospices | 01 February 2008 | Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank have selected Help the Hospices, the hospice movement’s national charity, as their new charity partner with effect from 1st February. |
| Cross - Party recognition of the need to improve hospice funding | 01 February 2008 | Statement on House of Commons debate on hospice funding |
| Times Appeal Launches and supports Help the Hospices | 10 December 2007 | The Times Christmas Appeal which benefits three charities including Help the Hospices launched today (29.11.07). |
| Hospice: the heart of end-of-life care conference speaker presentations | 28 November 2007 | View and download presentations from the 'Hospice: the heart of end-of-life care conference' |
| Initial results from Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme | 22 November 2007 | Help the Hospices, the hospice movement’s national charity, |
| National Campaign Lights Up Lives | 20 November 2007 | The hospice movement today (20th November) launches its annual “Light up a Life” campaign incorporating a new visual identity and – for the first time – a national advertising and PR campaign and a new website. The campaign has been developed by national hospice charity Help the Hospices with support from Abbey and HSA, part of Simplyhealth Group. |
| National Campaign Lights Up Lives | 20 November 2007 | Hundreds of thousands of people will be remembering and celebrating the life of someone they love in this year’s Light up a Life appeal. The appeal, which launches today, sees hundreds of events taking place in support of hospice care around the country from now up until Christmas. |
| Simplyhealth staff make a difference to hospices | 13 November 2007 | 100 staff at health and wellbeing group Simplyhealth took part in a ‘Being the Difference’ volunteering day at local hospices last week as part of the Group’s ongoing relationship with Help the Hospices. |
| Reindeer Snack pack | 06 November 2007 | Reindeer Go Further With Post Office® Snack Pack Packets of specially-prepared Reindeer Food will be available from 422 Post Offices across the UK from 12th November to raise money for Help the Hospices. The initiative is the latest fundraising activity to stem from the three-year partnership between Royal Mail Group and Help the Hospices which has already raised over £1.3 million for... |
| Towergate Partnership Boosts Long Term Hospice Fundraising | 30 October 2007 | As part of a newly developed partnership with Help the Hospices, national insurance firm Towergate Partnership is supporting an innovation programme |
| Community Based Courses in Palliative Care | 30 October 2007 | HSA supports hospice Regional Outreach Training Programme |
| Christmas cards now available | 29 October 2007 | We are once again offering the opportunity to purchase our unique range of Christmas Cards and Greeting Cards, painted by our founder and President, Anne Duchess of Norfolk. |
| Welsh Assembly money for hospices will help to ease current funding pressures | 25 October 2007 | Help the Hospices welcomes the release of £2 million for hospices in Wales |
| When caring comes to an end | 22 October 2007 | An essential new publication is being launched (available from Oct 29th 2007) to help carers whose responsibilities are changing. |
| Towergate Boosts Hospice Fundraising | 19 October 2007 | As part of a newly developed partnership with Help the Hospices, national insurance firm Towergate Partnership is supporting an innovation programme which enables hospices around the country to boost their long-term fundraising potential. |
| 7% of World Population Suffering Unnecessary Cancer Pain | 28 September 2007 | A report published on 28th September shows that 80% of the world’s cancer sufferers have no access to pain relief and 7% of all people in the world suffer cancer pain that could be relieved but isn’t due to lack of access to low cost and effective pain relieving drugs. |
| TV presenter Carol takes up Millionaire Challenge | 24 September 2007 | Presenters of popular daytime TV show Loose Women Carol McGiffen and Sherrie Hewson raised cash for charity |
