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Inside Health: A good death with friends and family

09/08/2022

A good death with friends and family

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, A good death with friends and family

Friends and family are being trained to administer medicines to ease loved ones' dying.

James Gallagher explores how friends and family are being trained to administer medications, to ease loved ones' symptoms at the end of life.

Should friends and family be trained to give potent medications to those dying at home to relieve their symptoms? 

We often say that we’d like to die peacefully at home when the inevitable happens. Yet people can be left in pain for hours waiting for a doctor or nurse to be free to visit and administer the medicines that ease our symptoms in our final days. James Gallagher speaks to Mark, who was trained to administer medicines to his mother to help keep her comfortable at the end of her life, and to palliative care doctor Marlise Poolman who is pioneering the programme across North Wales.

Presenter: James Gallagher
Producer: Beth Eastwood

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