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“The death of a child is something that nobody wants to ever plan for, something nobody wants to think about, let alone speak about. It’s isolating and scary, you think: am I the only person going through this?” - Lorna...

During a debate on end of life care in the House of Commons on 2nd March, several MPs called for children and young people to be given choice at the end of their lives. In response, a minister said he would...

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...