News and Comment

UK children’s palliative care charity Together for Short Lives has expressed its disappointment that the government seems to be missing an important opportunity to end the crisis in children’s social care funding. This follows the government's announcement on 17 November...

Two innovative projects launch today, to help young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition get the vital support they need, made possible by funding from Together for Short Lives – the UK charity for children’s palliative care. Advances in...

Dr Sarah Mitchell, GP in Birmingham who has written a local palliative care strategy for the city, reflects on her appearance on BBC 5 Live Investigates (12 November 2017) to talk about Together for Short Lives’ ‘Commissioning 2017’ report. She...

New research published today (12 November) by UK charity Together for Short Lives shows that only a third (35%) of local NHS planning and funding organisations (CCGs) in England are implementing a government commitment which says that the NHS must...

Getting our service up and running – what we do EACH has been running a Help at Home service, our approach to Family Support Volunteering, for just over a year now. In that time we have engaged over 100 volunteers,...

The prospect of losing a child is a parent’s worst nightmare. Tragically, for the parents and carers of 5,000 babies, children and young people who die in the UK every year, this nightmare becomes a reality. As a society, surely...