DESCRIPTION This book provides
comprehensive, practical
guidelines on the
responsibilities of those
who lead, co-ordinate and manage volunteers in small hospices, large
specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult
and always important work. In the United Kingdom alone, there are thousands of volunteers in hospice work, a small proportion doing work with patients, and the vast majority doing equally valuable work such as driving, sitting with relatives, manning charity shops and telephones. As a result, Europe, Australia, the United States and
Canada are very interested in the United Kingdom's use of volunteers.
TOPIC Volunteerism
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