Hugh Grant promotes end-of-life care

At the British Museum in central London, the 48-year-old described how Marie Curie workers had cared for his mother in her final hours.

The Four Weddings And A Funeral star told the charity’s supporters that despite being a ‘hard-hearted person’, he thought the nurses had been ‘marvellous’.

Grant said: ‘They were so fantastic to my mum who, eight years ago almost to the day, was in her last 24 hours, and if you can ever have a happy last 24 hours she pretty much had one, and entirely thanks to Marie Curie.’

The charity used a YouGov poll to reveal that nearly four out of five people did not know that a Marie Curie nurse would be available to them, while half did not know how to get one.

Marie Curie chief executive Thomas Hughes-Hallett believes it is vital patients are made aware of the charity’s services.

He said: ‘Everyone knows about Marie Curie these days but they don’t know how to get a Marie Curie nurse and they don’t know that there’s a nurse on every doorstep in Britain except six places.’

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