Hospice UK

People who are trans and gender diverse deserve support as much as anyone else. We have a legal duty to improve care both from the Health and Care Act 2022 and the Equality Act 2010 but we also have a moral duty to improve this simply because it’s the right thing to do.

This report highlights so many challenges trans people face. The stripping away of who they are, their name, their pronouns, their personal care and the safety of their chosen family. The barriers to marrying and dying in the gender they’ve lived as.… (más)

"Hospice UK’s PopNAT (Population-based needs assessment tool) has been created to support hospices, local decision makers and other service providers across health and social care to plan for the future, identify unmet need and to innovate services based on intelligence about the end of life and palliative care needs of the local population. PopNAT supports:
Understanding local demographics in relation to palliative and end of life care
Assessing service reach
Identifying local systems of care
Taking action based on evidence
We intend that PopNAT will evolve over time, and thus we welcome feedback, suggestions and reports on how you have used the knowledge gained from the tool."… (más)

"We are all, in some way, affected by death and dying. With 600,000 deaths per year in the UK, and almost half of adults reporting being bereaved at some point in the last five years, it is likely that we have recently been personally touched by loss, or know someone who has. And yet, despite the inevitability of our lives ending, in the UK 118,000 people every year do not receive the care they need at this vital time.
The reasons for this vary, but as a nation we have to do more to ensure that expert end of life care is available to all who need it, regardless of who they are, where they live, and why they are dying. Providers of hospice care in particular are committed to reducing inequities in access to expert end of life care and to reaching more people, and their families, as they approach the end of their lives."… (más)