Charlie King
@charliejking.bsky.social
Dep Director of External Affairs at Hospice UK. Birmingham City fan & Brummie in London.
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Earlier this month, I met with @hospiceuk.bsky.social to discuss the future of hospice care, post-NHS 10-year Health Plan.
With rising costs, growing demand, and service cuts, as @tobyhporter.bsky.social highlights, this important sector urgently needs investment.
With rising costs, growing demand, and service cuts, as @tobyhporter.bsky.social highlights, this important sector urgently needs investment.
July 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Earlier this month, I met with @hospiceuk.bsky.social to discuss the future of hospice care, post-NHS 10-year Health Plan.
With rising costs, growing demand, and service cuts, as @tobyhporter.bsky.social highlights, this important sector urgently needs investment.
With rising costs, growing demand, and service cuts, as @tobyhporter.bsky.social highlights, this important sector urgently needs investment.
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Palliative care consultant @doctoroxford.bsky.social argues that society could unintentionally 'coerce' people into assisted dying because hospice care is underfunded and unable to offer people a real choice between managed pain and suffering or assisted dying.
January 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Palliative care consultant @doctoroxford.bsky.social argues that society could unintentionally 'coerce' people into assisted dying because hospice care is underfunded and unable to offer people a real choice between managed pain and suffering or assisted dying.
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Hospice funding is complex but yesterday's announcement of £100m is a very welcome boost & we thank @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social for his personal commitment to the hospice sector. Many thanks to @tobyhporter.bsky.social @charliejking.bsky.social & all the team at @hospiceuk.bsky.social
Today Stephen Kinnock and I announce the biggest funding for hospices in a generation:
£100 million for improving buildings, kit and technology
£26 million grant for children and young people’s hospices
An early Christmas present for hospices that do a wonderful job for families.
£100 million for improving buildings, kit and technology
£26 million grant for children and young people’s hospices
An early Christmas present for hospices that do a wonderful job for families.
December 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Hospice funding is complex but yesterday's announcement of £100m is a very welcome boost & we thank @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social for his personal commitment to the hospice sector. Many thanks to @tobyhporter.bsky.social @charliejking.bsky.social & all the team at @hospiceuk.bsky.social
Everybody who has read, heard or watched anything about assisted dying in recent days, and who has been left with questions, must read this.
I guarantee you'll learn something you didn't know.
I guarantee you'll learn something you didn't know.
I've written about what dying typically looks like - not as a 'pro' or 'anti' AD piece, but in the spirit of confronting a taboo.
We've lost the easy familiarity with the patterns of dying that existed when death typically occurred in people’s own homes.
Let's talk about it 🙏
@newstatesman.com
We've lost the easy familiarity with the patterns of dying that existed when death typically occurred in people’s own homes.
Let's talk about it 🙏
@newstatesman.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Everybody who has read, heard or watched anything about assisted dying in recent days, and who has been left with questions, must read this.
I guarantee you'll learn something you didn't know.
I guarantee you'll learn something you didn't know.
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Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK, responds to the result of today's vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
Read the full statement: www.hospiceuk.org/latest-from-...
Read the full statement: www.hospiceuk.org/latest-from-...
November 29, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK, responds to the result of today's vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
Read the full statement: www.hospiceuk.org/latest-from-...
Read the full statement: www.hospiceuk.org/latest-from-...
One of the very wisest of voices here.
The oversimplification of the #AD debate is troubling. There are no 'goodies' & 'baddies' here, only people: with varying experience of living & dying, some with professional insights into applying law to medicine in complex circs, or into the myriad ways people & medicine respond to illness.
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November 29, 2024 at 10:20 AM
One of the very wisest of voices here.
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It’s been an honour to make this programme.
Thanks for everyone who spoke to us.
Thanks for everyone who spoke to us.
November 28, 2024 at 8:25 AM
It’s been an honour to make this programme.
Thanks for everyone who spoke to us.
Thanks for everyone who spoke to us.
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Hospices are facing immense challenges, this is a timely, important look at what’s happening-and why support for hospice care is so vital right now.
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? airs tomorrow on ITV, 8:30pm.
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? airs tomorrow on ITV, 8:30pm.
🔺Investigation
The work of hospices is precious and precarious. We’ve found they’re cutting jobs, beds and home care.
70% of hospices are in financial deficit. They’ve asked the govt for an emergency £110m to avoid more cuts.
My piece, including my own experience t.co/Z1DIappWvd
The work of hospices is precious and precarious. We’ve found they’re cutting jobs, beds and home care.
70% of hospices are in financial deficit. They’ve asked the govt for an emergency £110m to avoid more cuts.
My piece, including my own experience t.co/Z1DIappWvd
https://www.itv.com/news/2024-11-27/it-is-heartbreaking-hospices-under-pressure-as-70-face-financial-deficit
t.co
November 27, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Hospices are facing immense challenges, this is a timely, important look at what’s happening-and why support for hospice care is so vital right now.
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? airs tomorrow on ITV, 8:30pm.
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? airs tomorrow on ITV, 8:30pm.
This will be such an important piece...at such an important time.
Putting the final touches to our programme on the funding crisis in end of life care, which airs Thursday on ITV1.
I am so grateful to those who opened up to us about their experiences and the hospices who let us in.
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? 8:30pm Thursday, ITV1
I am so grateful to those who opened up to us about their experiences and the hospices who let us in.
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? 8:30pm Thursday, ITV1
November 26, 2024 at 4:42 PM
This will be such an important piece...at such an important time.
This podcast is jaw dropping. Well worth a listen.
‘This isn’t a story about housing, Hewitt tells us. “It’s a story about power.”’
The @newstatesman.com reviews our documentary podcast series The Trapped - “vivid and harrowing”.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
The @newstatesman.com reviews our documentary podcast series The Trapped - “vivid and harrowing”.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
The Trapped: inside Britain’s social housing scandal
This eight-part series reveals the council homes unfit for human habitation – in horrifying detail.
www.newstatesman.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:37 AM
This podcast is jaw dropping. Well worth a listen.
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Hi everyone, we're pleased to be posting here on Bluesky for the very first time!
Expect some updates from our National #HospiceUKConf, starting tomorrow.
In the meantime, we've put together a starter pack of hospice people for you 🧡
go.bsky.app/MfxpC23
Expect some updates from our National #HospiceUKConf, starting tomorrow.
In the meantime, we've put together a starter pack of hospice people for you 🧡
go.bsky.app/MfxpC23
Hospice people
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Hi everyone, we're pleased to be posting here on Bluesky for the very first time!
Expect some updates from our National #HospiceUKConf, starting tomorrow.
In the meantime, we've put together a starter pack of hospice people for you 🧡
go.bsky.app/MfxpC23
Expect some updates from our National #HospiceUKConf, starting tomorrow.
In the meantime, we've put together a starter pack of hospice people for you 🧡
go.bsky.app/MfxpC23
Interesting polling from More in Common.
Just as compelling in my view is another report in The Sunday Times today on life in a hospice.
If it were up to me I'd have every MP spend two days in a hospice before voting as Steve Bleach did here.
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Just as compelling in my view is another report in The Sunday Times today on life in a hospice.
If it were up to me I'd have every MP spend two days in a hospice before voting as Steve Bleach did here.
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
November 24, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Interesting polling from More in Common.
Just as compelling in my view is another report in The Sunday Times today on life in a hospice.
If it were up to me I'd have every MP spend two days in a hospice before voting as Steve Bleach did here.
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Just as compelling in my view is another report in The Sunday Times today on life in a hospice.
If it were up to me I'd have every MP spend two days in a hospice before voting as Steve Bleach did here.
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
I made a UK hospice folks starter pack which people going to #HospiceUKconf may find useful.
Cc @tobyhporter.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/MfxpC23
Cc @tobyhporter.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/MfxpC23
November 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I made a UK hospice folks starter pack which people going to #HospiceUKconf may find useful.
Cc @tobyhporter.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/MfxpC23
Cc @tobyhporter.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/MfxpC23
Whatever your views on assisted dying, read this.
I know just a little of the courage it takes for someone to write about the death of their child.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I know just a little of the courage it takes for someone to write about the death of their child.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spending time with people in their final days showed me that we need not assisted dying, but better end-of-life care | Gordon Brown
We can and must improve on our current end-of-life options – ‘Switzerland, suicide or suffering’, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Whatever your views on assisted dying, read this.
I know just a little of the courage it takes for someone to write about the death of their child.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I know just a little of the courage it takes for someone to write about the death of their child.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Funding palliative care properly is morally right and financially wise."
@economist.com nails it it 300 words.
@economist.com nails it it 300 words.
November 22, 2024 at 7:57 AM
"Funding palliative care properly is morally right and financially wise."
@economist.com nails it it 300 words.
@economist.com nails it it 300 words.
Post you from a different era?
My mate's mom's 50th, about 2003-4.
My mate's mom's 50th, about 2003-4.
November 21, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Post you from a different era?
My mate's mom's 50th, about 2003-4.
My mate's mom's 50th, about 2003-4.
My first post on here and I couldn't be happier it's about this.
Dan and his team have been brilliant to work with.
This programme could not be better timed, or more important.
Dan and his team have been brilliant to work with.
This programme could not be better timed, or more important.
Really pleased to say I am
presenting an ITV programme on hospice and end of life care.
Since my mum received hospice care a decade ago I’ve been investigating the state of the sector and its lack of funding.
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? will air on ITV, 8:30pm, Thursday 28th November
presenting an ITV programme on hospice and end of life care.
Since my mum received hospice care a decade ago I’ve been investigating the state of the sector and its lack of funding.
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? will air on ITV, 8:30pm, Thursday 28th November
November 19, 2024 at 11:39 AM
My first post on here and I couldn't be happier it's about this.
Dan and his team have been brilliant to work with.
This programme could not be better timed, or more important.
Dan and his team have been brilliant to work with.
This programme could not be better timed, or more important.