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30-Jan-20, 08:50
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:
Home care services for the dying in Scotland are patchy at best
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP David Stewart told MSPs today that end of life care should be at the top of the political agenda but home care services for the dying in Scotland were patchy at best. He highlighted how one GP had told him that resources for supporting care to help patients who wished to die at home seemed to have been "designed out of the system." Mr Stewart, who is also Labour's Shadow Public Health Secretary, was speaking in the Scottish Parliament at his cross-party member’s debate on the ‘Right to Full Care to Die at Home’. [Read Full Article (https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/10235)]
Home care services for the dying in Scotland are patchy at best
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP David Stewart told MSPs today that end of life care should be at the top of the political agenda but home care services for the dying in Scotland were patchy at best. He highlighted how one GP had told him that resources for supporting care to help patients who wished to die at home seemed to have been "designed out of the system." Mr Stewart, who is also Labour's Shadow Public Health Secretary, was speaking in the Scottish Parliament at his cross-party member’s debate on the ‘Right to Full Care to Die at Home’. [Read Full Article (https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/10235)]