Patients should be able to determine where they die, at home, in a hospice or in hospital.

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One Friday morning this spring, I went on patient rounds with Sarah Creed, a nurse with the hospice service that my hospital system operates.

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"In his ministry as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Bergoglio used to celebrate the Mass in a prison or hospital or hospice for the poor and marginalized, " the Vatican said in a statement.

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"In his ministry as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Bergoglio used to celebrate the Mass in a prison or hospital or hospice for the poor and marginalized, " the Vatican said in a statement, using the name Francis used before he became pope.

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The Lib Dem minister, responsible for social care, said his "sole interest" was making the final days of someone's life as comfortable and dignified as possible whether they chose to be in hospital, a hospice or at home.

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The restrictions are also in place at Princess Anne Hospital and Countess Mountbatten House hospice.

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Like many people, I had believed that hospice care hastens death, because patients forgo hospital treatments and are allowed high-dose narcotics to combat pain.

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In surveys, the majority of people say they would prefer to die in their own home while receiving hospice care than in a nursing home or hospital.

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The General Hospital, Family Nursing and the Jersey Hospice have donated out-of-date equipment.

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The family thanked staff at Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital and Claire House Children's Hospice in Wirral, Merseyside, where Rosie was treated and asked for privacy at this "sad and difficult time".

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The Liverpool Care Pathway was developed at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the city's Marie Curie hospice to relieve suffering in dying patients, setting out principles for their treatment in their final days and hours.

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This former hospice for pilgrims and, until relatively recently, a working hospital, contains almost a millennium of history, religious art and ruins.

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Mr Roast spent four days at the hospital in October 2011 before he was transferred to a hospice.

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For these patients, too, hospice enrollment jumped to seventy per cent, and their use of hospital services dropped sharply.

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