News, August 2012
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Despite overwhelming medical evidence supporting the withdrawal of intensive care in extremely ill children who are unlikely to survive, parents who have deeply held religious beliefs may hold out for a miracle, a small study has found.
The 28th issue of the ChIPPS electronic newsletter is now available online or as a PDF. This issue offers a collection of articles that explore some issues involving differences in providing palliative care to children and their families by contrast with services to adults.
A new series of leaflets aims to increase public awareness of ways of dealing with death, dying and bereavement and to promote community involvement in end of life care. The series of ten leaflets is aimed at people nearing the end of their life, as well as their friends and loved ones.
Applications are now being accepted for the AAHPM Developing Countries Scholarship.
The aim of the programme is to improve access to palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa by providing small grants of between £500 and £5,000 to organisations offering palliative care across the continent. Priority is given to initiatives which directly improve the patient experience and the standard of palliative care services.
- On Thursday 12 July a historic meeting of the leads from both countries involved in the DFID 2 Country Project took place during the recently held 2012 Cardiff Conference. India and Malawi.
At the end of the 2012 AIDS Conference a number of people expressed their disappointment at the lack of emphasis on care and support.
The Irish Childhood Bereavement Network (ICBN) has been established to support those working with grieving children and young people, and their families, in Ireland.
