Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, OM, DBE (June 22 1918 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England - July 14 2005 at St Christopher's Hospice, South London, England) was a prominent English nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international universities. She is best known for her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasizing the importance of palliative care in modern medicine. She was an Anglican by religious conviction. Wikipedia
Dame Cicely Saunders, who has died in the renowned hospice she began, devoted her life to ensuring that terminally ill people could die with dignity and without pain. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4254255.stm
Listen to this item Dame Cicely Saunders is the founder of the modern hospice movement and has just received the Conrad N Hilton Humanitarian Prize - the world's largest humanitarian award - of one million dollars. www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2001_33_fri_03.shtml
Cicely Saunders International is a dynamic new charity in the drive for quality research to improve the care and treatment of all patients with progressive illness and to make high quality palliative care available to everyone who needs it. www.cicelysaundersfoundation.org/
St Christopher's hospice, which was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders, who has died aged 87, is a beacon for the supposedly terminally ill and their families. www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1529811,00.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Cicely Saunders. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicely_Saunders
Welcome Welcome Welcome to St Christopher's Hospice website where you will find information explaining about our services and the care, understanding and support we are able to offer to people.St Christopher's exists to provide www.stchristophers.org.uk
In 1965 Saunders was made an Officer of the British Empire . In 1979 she was further elevated by knighthood to DBE and became known as Dame Cicely Saunders . In 1981 Dame Cicely was awarded the Templeton Prize , the world's richest annual prize awarded danceage.com/biography/Cicely_Saunders
In 1965 Saunders was made an Officer of the British Empire . In 1979 she was further elevated by knighthood to DBE and became known as Dame Cicely Saunders . In 1981 Dame Cicely was awarded the Templeton Prize , the world's richest annual prize awarded encyclopedia.calendarhome.com/cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=C...
Cicely Saunders is universally acclaimed as a pioneer of modern hospice care. Trained initially in nursing and social work, she qualified in medicine in 1958 and subsequently dedicated the whole of her professional life to improving the care of the dying www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Medicine/Palliativ...