Crisis in care for dying people says Marie Curie as survey shows suffering

Crisis in care for dying people says Marie Curie as survey shows suffering 
Jersey Evening Post, UK News, United Kingdom; by UK News; 9/3/24 
A third of dying people in England and Wales were severely or overwhelmingly affected by pain in the last week of life, according to a major survey said to show how “patchy and inconsistent” care for this group has become. End-of-life charity Marie Curie said its study of 1,179 bereaved people means it is the largest nationally representative post-bereavement survey in the UK in almost 10 years. Almost half of survey respondents (49%) said they were unhappy with at least one aspect of the care the dying person received and, of those, one in eight made a formal complaint. The research, in collaboration with King’s College London (KCL), Hull York Medical School and the University of Cambridge, also found that one in five dying people had no contact with their GP in the last three months of life. 
Editor's note: This disturbing data reflects the financial struggles for end-of-life care in the United Kingdom.