News, April 2013
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Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cambridge, is celebrating Children’s Hospice Week, and has recorded her first ever video message to encourage people to support their local children’s hospice service.
It has been announced that Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cambridge will show her support for Children’s Hospice Week by paying a visit to Naomi House Children's Hospice, near Winchester, on Monday 29 April.
"I'm calling on everyone to be a hero and get involved in Children's Hospice Week this year." Simon Cowell
The ICPCN is pleased to announce that it will be holding its very first international conference on children's palliative care in 2014.
During the first three months of this year, 24 Zambian health professionals attended a three week long 'Train the Trainers' course on children's palliative care which culminated in a formal certificate ceremony held on 24 March at Our Lady's Hospice in Kalingalinga, Lusaka. The professionals who completed the course included social workers, counsellors, nurses and clinical officers.
The number of deaths among teenagers and young adults due to cancer in the UK has been cut in half since the 1970s, according to new data from Cancer Research UK.
- In poorer countries, young children are more likely to die in the months before their mother's death, when she is seriously ill, and also in the period after her death, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.
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