Saunders and Bohusz-Sysko married after his wife's death, and he died at St. Christopher's in 1995. As he was dying he told Cicely, "I am completely happy. I have done what I had to do in my life ...

Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement The key to successful palliative care is to treat the patient as a person, not as a set of symptoms, or medical problems. The World ...

Dr George Laking is an associate professor of medical oncology and clinical director Māori in the Centre for Cancer Research, ...

THE founder of a hospice is getting first class recognition. Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, features on a set of 10 first class stamps. Sir Winston ...

The advancement of the current model for hospice in the United States is credited to British physician Dame Cicely Saunders, who, in 1963, came to Yale University to lecture on the concept of ...

A TRAILBLAZER of modern hospice care has died in the institute she founded. Dame Cicely Saunders opened St Christopher's Hospice, Lawrie Park Road, Sydenham, in 1967 aiming to improve care for ...

These words of Cicely Saunders tell of a vision and challenge of what “assisted dying” can be: the radical alternative to the “assisted dying” envisaged by the Oireachtas Committee on ...

Towards Better End of Life Dementia Care, A powerful and thought provoking new exhibition at Science Gallery London ...

We could argue that we should always ensure that patients continue to live and not exist, something Dame Cicely Saunders ...

Charles Normand - Professor of Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin and Professor of the Economics of Palliative Care and Rehabillitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College ...