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What does great palliative care look like?

Date Posted
24 March, 2017
Author
Barbara Gelb

What should great children’s palliative care look like in 2028? It's a challenging question. Challenging for the families, children and young people we all support to look this far ahead. Challenging for many children’s palliative care services, operating in a...

New ground-breaking transition awards

Date Posted
9 March, 2017

Together for Short Lives is today launching a ground-breaking new Transition Awards Programme to fund innovative projects to help address the cliff edge in care experienced by young adults moving from children’s to adult services. Advances in medical technology mean...

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Research: A bedrock for service development

Date Posted
3 March, 2017
Author
Lizzie Chambers

The Cochrane Pain & Palliative Care (PAPAS) Workshop on children’s palliative care on 24 February prompted me to set some thoughts down about the importance of research in children’s palliative care. It was so poignant to have Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner...

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