When dying well is out of reach

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When dying well is out of reach

Why has New Zealand slipped from third to 12th on Quality of Death Indexes over the past decade or so?  Hospice New Zealand Chief Executive Wayne Naylor has a list of reasons.  “We don’t have a current national strategy – the Government hasn’t renewed our 2001 strategy, so we don’t have national direction.  “We don’t have stable, sustainable funding for community-based palliative care, particularly provided from hospices. It’s widely variable. …