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Ice cubes clink as 93-year-old Colin Apelt pushes the drinks trolley down the hospital corridor. “Can I tempt you with a drink?” the grandfather-of-four asks, gently knocking on patients’ doors.
It’s 4pm on a Thursday and that means just one thing in the palliative care ward of St Vincent’s