ICPCN focuses on four key aims:
- Networking
- Information sharing
- Advocacy
- Research and education
The specific objectives of the organisation are:
1. Networking
To establish, maintain and develop an international children’s palliative care network to enable the sharing of knowledge and experience and to support the development and growth of children’s palliative care globally, both in terms of quality and coverage of care.
2. Information
To enable the collation and dissemination of information in accessible and appropriate formats and languages to support the development of children’s hospice and palliative care worldwide.
3. Advocacy
To provide a global voice for children’s hospice and palliative care and advocate for the rights of children to receive the palliative care they require. In addition:
- To undertake international awareness raising of children’s hospice and palliative care.
- To identify the gaps in children’s palliative care development.
- To support the development of lobbying and advocacy at a national level.
- To address the mainstreaming of children’s palliative care within relevant international arenas.
- To produce an international advocacy toolkit.
4. Research and education
To disseminate and expand where appropriate the evidence-base and educational opportunities for children’s hospice and palliative care at an international level.
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