Calls for more hospice care for cancer patients

SERIOUSLY-ILL cancer patients are dying on crowded wards across the south-east because of a lack of hospice care, cancer campaigners have warned.

The lack of palliative care in the region is also a source of major trauma for grieving families, the Cancer Care Alliance said.

It wants the recommendations made in an unpublished report on palliative care in the region implemented without delay.