Marie Curie Medical Adviser, Dr Teresa Tate, awarded OBE
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Dr Teresa Tate, Marie Curie Medical Adviser has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Honours List. The award has been made in recognition of her work for Marie Curie over the past 13 years and for palliative care more widely. Dr Tate, a palliative medicine physician, was appointed medical adviser to Marie Curie in 2000 and has spent 20 years working tirelessly to ensure those approaching the end of their life have the best possible quality of life and are cared for properly. As well as her work for Marie Curie, she was Deputy National Clinical Director for End of Life Care in England and has been a consultant in palliative medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, now Barts Health, since 1990. She is a past President of the Palliative Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, and has served on the National Council for Palliative Care in various capacities, including as Trustee and as the Chair of the Ethics Committee. Speaking about the honour, Dr Tate said: “Working with Marie Curie has given me the opportunity to enable more people with terminal illnesses to be cared for and die in their place of choice and also to help shape research into improving all aspects of care for those who are approaching the end of life. Dr Jane Collins, Chief Executive of Marie Curie said: “We’re so glad that the work she has done both for Marie Curie and palliative care has been recognised.” -ENDS- |
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Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of the UK’s largest charities. Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, it provided care to more than 35,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in its nine hospices last year and is the largest provider of hospice beds outside the NHS.
Funding
Around 70 per cent of the charity’s income comes from the generous support of thousands of individuals, membership organisations and businesses, with the balance of our funds coming from the NHS.
Marie Curie Nurses
The charity is best known for its network of Marie Curie Nurses working in the community to provide end of life care, totally free for patients in their own homes.
Research
The charity provides core funding for three palliative care research facilities; the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit at University College London, the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and the Marie Curie Palliative Care Centre at the Wales Cancer Trials Unit (Cardiff University). The charity also supports palliative and end of life care research through its project grant funding streams, the Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Programme (administered by Cancer Research UK) and the Dimbleby Marie Curie Cancer Care Research Fund. Both research programmes aim to tackle the knowledge gap in palliative and end of life care research, which in turn will benefit patients, families and carers. The Marie Curie Research Institute in Oxted closed in 2010.
The right to die in place of choice
Since 2004 Marie Curie Cancer Care has been campaigning for more patients to be able to make the choice to be cared for and die in their place of choice.
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