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Last week (Friday 23rd October), peers debated Baroness Finlay’s Access to Palliative Care Bill in the House of Lords. Together for Short Lives briefed peers on the importance of including children, young people and their families in the debate and called on them...

Ministers can and must do more to make sure that seriously ill children in England can access palliative care when and where they need it. The call, made by Together for Short Lives, the UK’s leading children’s palliative care charity, follows today’s (15 October) government response to recommendations made by the House of Commons...

There are 49,000 seriously ill children in the UK with health conditions that mean they may die young - this is equivalent to one child in every school across the UK. Yet imagining what life is like for these families...

As part of the National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership, Together for Short Lives today jointly launches ‘Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: A national framework for local action 2015-2020’. This new national framework urges local...

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...

A star studded Midsummer Ball hosted by Patron Simon Cowell for UK children’s palliative care charity Together for Short Lives, raised a staggering £400,000 in support of the charity’s work with seriously ill children and their families. The Midsummer Ball...