Marathon is next for hospice doctor

HOSPICE doctor Richard Latten is familiar with helping patients and families through challenging times.

Now, he’s preparing for his own, very different, very unfamiliar challenge – running this year’s London

Marathon.

But the Wirral

Hospice St John’s, where he is the palliative care consultant, will not be far from his mind, as he raises money towards patient care there.

Back in 2019, Richard was a long way from the physical and mental mindset required to run a marathon.

He said: “I was finding things really tough with the challenges that work in our field can sometimes bring to the surface, while also dealing with a bereavement a few years before, which had had an emotional impact on my own family.

“Joining some of my hospice colleagues, friends and family, in running in our local Parkrun was the turning point in getting myself back on track.”

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