<p>This episode looks at humanised care in the context of death and dying. Bev Fitzsimons is joined by Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and now Point of Care Foundation chair,  and Libby Sallnow, a palliative care medical consultant at the Central North West London NHS Trust and lecturer at UCL and St Christopher's hospice. Both were members of the Lancet Commission on the value of death. </p>

This episode looks at humanised care in the context of death and dying. Bev Fitzsimons is joined by Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and now Point of Care Foundation chair, and Libby Sallnow, a palliative care medical consultant at the Central North West London NHS Trust and lecturer at UCL and St Christopher's hospice. Both were members of the Lancet Commission on the value of death.

<p>This episode looks at humanised care in the context of death and dying. Bev Fitzsimons is joined by Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and now Point of Care Foundation chair, &nbsp;and Libby Sallnow, a palliative care medical consultant at the Central North West London NHS Trust and lecturer at UCL and St Christopher's hospice. Both were members of the Lancet Commission on the value of death.&nbsp;</p>

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