Hospice UK | End of Life Studies

End of life care: how to save hospices from collapse? Less medicine and some lessons from India

Published on: February 15, 2019 Author: David Clark 2 Comments

David Clark, University of Glasgow For the first time ever, one of Britain’s 200 independent hospices has closed its doors. St Clare’s in Jarrow near Newcastle had been serving its community in the north east of England for 30 years, raising most of its annual costs of £2.2m from local charitable giving. But after a… Continue reading →

To Comfort Always: lessons from the past to inform the future at Hospice UK 2016

Published on: December 9, 2016 Author: David Clark Leave a comment

David Clark at Hospice UK conference (image copyright Jonathan Goldberg jongoldberg.co.uk)

I have had close links with Hospice UK for many years, serving first as a Trustee and now as a Vice-President. So it was a real honour to be invited to give the opening plenary at the charity’s annual conference in Liverpool, in a splendid riverside setting overlooking the Mersey. The timing was good too. … Continue reading →