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Education and training around advance care planning

Dr Sue Neilson, Dr Duncan Randall and Dr Karen Shaw share their blog on education and training around advance care planning for Dying Matters Week. The idea of advance care plans is something that some parents may struggle coming to terms with. Some may even associate it purely with the end-of-life care for their child. However it doesn’t have to...

Education and training

Across the children’s palliative care sector there are serious recruitment challenges which impact on the ability of services to meet the needs of the growing number of children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families. It is essential that we encourage new professionals to come into the sector and provide a variety of education and training opportunities so that...

Lack of funding & lack of training equals lack of choice for children

Together for Short Lives, the UK children’s palliative care charity, is calling on UK governments to invest in community children’s nursing teams with the skills, knowledge and time to deliver round the clock end of life care to terminally ill children and young people - and support local commissioners to provide choice to children and young people at the end...

Ensuring a sustainable children's palliative care workforce

There are too few professionals with the skills and experience needed to provide children’s palliative care in hospitals, children’s hospices and in the community. Together for Short Lives has found that: There are too few community children’s nurses (CCNs) employed by the NHS: CCNs provide the bedrock of children’s palliative care. If safe staffing levels recommended by the Royal College...

Research Spotlight – Perinatal Palliative Care

Our Research Spotlight is a series that focuses on a themed literature search of new research in a particular area of children's palliative care, together with a commentary from a practitioner or academic that highlights some of these research articles and discusses their implications for practice. The focus of this bulletin shines a light on perinatal and neonatal palliative care,...

Pursuing a career in clinical research

There is growing evidence that the engagement of clinicians and organisations in research can improve healthcare performance and deliver better patient care outcomes. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) strategy (2021) prioritises clinical research as ‘the single most important way in which we improve our healthcare by identifying the best means to prevent, diagnose, and treat conditions’. This...