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Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge has recorded a personal video message to celebrate and mark the beginning of Children’s Hospice Week.

Together for Short Lives has welcomed the opportunity to help shape the new quality standard for children’s palliative care, which represents another positive step forward for care and support for children with life-limiting conditions. In our response to the National Institute for...

Perhaps an odd title for a blog as we enter a period of unprecedented political and social change both here and abroad. But events over the past 12 months, and indeed those ahead, have reinforced my belief that what unites...

Today we have launched a vital resource for babies expected to have very short lives - The Perinatal Pathway for Babies with Palliative Care Needs. The pathway has been developed by Together for Short Lives with expert input from leading ethicists and clinicians...

Survey of children’s hospices shows nurse vacancy rate higher than NHS - has grown since 2015 The number of children and young people who use lifeline children’s hospice services is increasing. Yet the nursing shortfall means that children’s hospices are...

So what can you do? Every death matters, because every life matters. Every one of us, from the youngest to the oldest, deserves good quality end of life care, whoever we are, wherever we are, and whatever is bringing our...