Family copes with mother's death

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Pallative care: Daughters battled admin while mother died

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Marie Curie spoke to more than 1,000 family members, including 557 in Wales .

Found many took on tasks they lacked knowledge and struggled to get professional help.

Ceridwen Hughes' mother Joan was diagnosed with cancer and died within three weeks .

Family spent precious last weeks trying to manage her pain and arrange a wheelchair and a commode.

Despite 43 calls for assistance, a doctor visited just once.

The Welsh government spokesperson added: " The National Programme for Palliative and End of Life Care is driving forward improvements such as setting national standards for care, boosting community-based services, supporting the training and development of the care workforce and improving bereavement care so families and individuals receive the support they need when they lose a loved one. “We are also committed to ensuring that unpaid carers can access the support they need and have provided additional funding to support unpaid carers when the cared for person is admitted to, or discharged from, hospital.”.

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Neutral language

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informal

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English

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not offensive

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not hateful