World Hospice & Palliative Care Day focus on children - Hidden lives, hidden patients - particularly children. ICPCN - International Children's Palliative Care Network - e-bulettin July 2015 -

This year's theme for World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is 'Hidden Lives, Hidden Patients' and the messaging around this has a strong focus on the needs of life-limited children to receive palliative care. Children with palliative care needs are some of the most ‘invisible’ patients of the health-care world. ICPCN is working hard to change that and we are delighted that to align with the ICPCN's NOW Campaign the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance has placed a particular emphasis on children in this year’s theme and in the accompanying report. Read more