Key Information
Reference code
K/PP149/4/1/11
Title
CLOSED UK general correspondence, E, 1966-1995
Date(s)
- 1966 - 1995 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Correspondence chiefly relating to St Christopher's Hospice, including donations given, arrangement for visits, staff vacancies and fundraising. Also correspondence concerning: requests for admission to the hospice and for medical advice; pain management, including the composition of the 'Brompton Cocktail' (a combination of opiates and alcohol used for terminal pain relief); Cicely Saunders' publications, lectures and media appearances; euthanasia; correspondence concerning a request to evaluate a book on the care of AIDS patients, by Alvin Marcetti and Shirley Lunn, 1991, with extracts. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2079.