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==Charitable organisation== {{more citations needed|section|date=May 2019}} In 2002, Saunders co-founded a new charitable organisation, Cicely Saunders International, of which she was the founding trustee and president.<ref name="Biography"/> The charity's mission is to promote 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 β hospice, hospital or home. The charity has co-created the world's first purpose built institute of palliative care β the Cicely Saunders Institute, and supported research to improve the management of symptoms such as breathlessness,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cicelysaunders/research/symptom/breathlessness|title=King's College London - Breathlessness|website=www.kcl.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-09|archive-date=9 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509215940/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cicelysaunders/research/symptom/breathlessness|url-status=dead}}</ref> action to meet more closely patient and family choice in palliative care and better support for older people. Cicely Saunder's obituary in the Royal College of Physicians of London's Munk's Roll collection contains further information about her work with this organisation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5463|title=Munks Roll Details for Cicely Mary Strode (Dame) Saunders|website=munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-15|archive-date=30 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530071321/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5463|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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