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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
Anglican 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.
St. Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built hospice, in
1967. The hospice was founded on the principles of combining expert
pain and symptom relief with
holistic care to meet the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of its patients and those of their family and friends.
She also succeeded in engaging the support of
Albertine Winner, the deputy chief medical officer at the Ministry of Health at the time. Later, Dame Albertine Winner would become chairwoman of St. Christopher's.
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 to an individual.
In 1989 Dame Cicely was appointed to the
Order of Merit by
Queen Elizabeth II. In 2001 she received the world's largest humanitarian award - the
Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, worth £700,000 - on behalf of St Christopher's. On
April 25,
2005, another (
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National Portrait Gallery.
She was a
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a
Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and a
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
She died of cancer at the age of 87 in 2005, at the hospice she herself had founded.
Dame Cicely was one of the subjects of Prime Minister
Gordon Brown's book:
Courage: Eight Portraits.
Titles and honours
Shorthand titles
Honours
Dame Commander of the British Empire (elevated from Officer)
Member of the Order of MeritFurther Information
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