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The politics of collaboration

Date Posted
17 May, 2017
Author
Barbara Gelb OBE

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...

A bewildering array of services

Date Posted
7 February, 2017
Author
Rachel Thompson

In October 2012 a Neurologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital gave my husband and I the worst imaginable news. Our youngest child Frank, aged 4, was diagnosed with Late Infantile Batten Disease, a rare, incurable, neurodegenerative condition. Frank had been healthy...

For the 49,000

Date Posted
7 February, 2017
Author
Stuart Andrew MP

Today, I am proud to be hosting a Parliamentary reception on behalf of Together for Short Lives – the UK charity which speaks up #forthe49000 children and young people in the UK with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. The event is...

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