#cicely saunders

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How people die remains in the memory of those who live on.

Dame Cicely Saunders

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Cicely Saunders (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) 

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Cicely Saunders (1918-2005) was an English physician and social worker. She is remembered for her important role in developing the hospice movement in the United Kingdom.

She studied at Oxford, and later at the Nightingale School of Nursing. In 1967, after years of research into palliative care, she established the first purpose-built hospice in the world, St Christopher’s Hospice, in London. She received numerous accolades for her work, including the 1981 Templeton Prize, the world’s highest-value annual prize.

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Remain a student, or become a wartime nurse? Cicely Saunders had no hesitation as World War II broke out.

Find out more about her remarkable story.

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The modern hospice movement was spearhead by Cicely Saunders, who opened St. Christopher’s Hospice in 1967.  St. Christopher’s, and the hospices that followed, focus on palliative and holistic care for those at the end of life.

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Being appointed a Dame meant much more to Cicely Saunders than just a title. 

Cicely Saunders pioneered the hospice movement, find out more about her life and legacy.

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Cicely Saunders wasn’t to know it yet, but she was about to become the founder of the modern hospice movement.

Find out more about her work and her everlasting legacy.

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…and we struggle to make time to finish that novel we’ve been reading for the last six months. Cicely Saunders was a truly inspirational woman!

Find out more about Cicely Saunders’ life and legacy.