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On the recent World Poetry Day, I discovered ‘The Elephant in the Room’. A metaphor for discussing mortality, it charts the ‘large and squatting’ elephant we squeeze around politely with ‘How are you?’ and ‘I’m fine’. I was particularly struck...

We have used our Budget representation to call on Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to increase funding for children's palliative care when he delivers his speech to parliament 29 October. We have also asked the Treasury to provide more...

Together for Short Lives has helped more families than ever before this year, providing vital help and legal support and fundraising for the UK’s children’s hospice and palliative care charities that they rely on. Our new impact report for 2017/18,...

I am very excited to have in my hands a hot-off-the-press copy of The Guide to Children’s Palliative Care. This is now the fourth edition of the Guide – and, can you believe it, the third edition I have been...

We have launched our new guide to commissioning, planning and delivering children’s palliative care based around the unique needs of the child and family. Now in its fourth edition, A Guide to Children’s Palliative Care, has played a pivotal role...

Last week, my limited scientific knowledge (a barely scraped GCSE pass) was stretched to the limit by a brilliant presentation given by Professor Persis Amrolia, from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, about research into CAR-T (chimeric...