Dame Cicely Saunders has died aged 87
A TRAILBLAZER of modern hospice care has died in the institute she founded.
Dame Cicely Saunders opened St Christopher's Hospice, Lawrie Park Road, Sydenham, in 1967 aiming to improve care for dying people.
Dame Saunders believed in a holistic approach to care and combined practical, social and spiritual elements of treatment.
Morphine research was done at St Christopher's, where the 87-year-old died, on July 14.
Chief executive of the hospice, Barbara Monroe, said: "Dame Cicely's vision and work has transformed the care of the dying and the practice of medicine in the UK and the world."
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