Children's Palliative Care - Children's Hospice Homecare

Children's Palliative Care - Children's Hospice Homecare

Children, ChildrensPalliativeCare, ChildrensHospice

Items related to the development and expansion of hospice and palliative care for children

Laura Rooney Ferris

Irish Hospice Foundation

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Children's Palliative Care

Issues related to children’s palliative care have been central to the Irish Hospice Foundation since its early years. IHF was involved with the development of a number of initiatives for children’s palliative care services Including ;
• Driving the first nationwide study on the end-of-life care needs of children, with the Department of Health & Children, resulting in the development of government policy on children’s palliative care in 2010
• Being part of the National Development Committee responsible for the implementation Government’s national policy on children’s palliative care
• IHF funded 85% of the start-up costs of the Children’s Care Programme – which includes a team of Children’s Outreach Nurses and Ireland’s only Paediatric Consultant specialising in Children Palliative Care
• Funding Children’s Oncology Liaison Nurse at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital for 12 years
• Fund a night nursing service for families to allow children with terminal illnesses at remain at home
• Along with Laura Lynn, Ireland’s Children’s Hospice, undertook two assessments of the respite needs of children with life-limiting conditions initially in the North-East and Midlands (2011), followed by a national respite needs assessment published in March 2013.