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Jeanette Hogg is the Lead Admiral Nurse at Hospice Isle of Man - she received funding from a Wolfson Foundation Professional Development grant via Hospice UK to undertake vital training in Dementia Studies
Grants

Challenge, improve and change: Jeanette’s Wolfson Funding

Jeanette Hogg, Lead Admiral Nurse at Hospice Isle of Man, shares how her professional development grant from the Wolfson Foundation made a difference to her dementia practice.
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Myths about hospice care
Hospice care stories

Seven things you didn’t know about hospice care: Nurses bust myths this Hospice Care Week

This Hospice Care Week (6-12 October), hospice nurses across the UK are lifting the lid on what hospice care is really like, and sharing the moments that make their work so powerfu...
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Hospice Care at home
Hospice care stories

How hospice care helps Barbara live life her way

Barbara is 81 and lives on her narrowboat in Milton Keynes. She’s being supported by our Willen at Home nurses to stay on her boat, as she wishes, and live as well as possible wi...
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Balfour Mount
News

Tribute to Dr Balfour Mount, pioneer of palliative care (1939 - 2025)

Tribute to Dr Balfour Mount, pioneer of palliative care (1939 - 2025)
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Images to encourage conversations around dying
Hospice care stories

“Dying To Be Heard”: 7 Images Created To Encourage Conversation

Terminally ill patient Megan McClay and her husband, Dimitar Kashchiev, took part in a photographic project that was created by me and the team at Same but Different to highlight e...
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Press release
Press Release

2 in 5 hospices planning to make cuts this year

Data from Hospice UK reveals the stark impact insufficient funding has on hospices.
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