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Linkedin: @JA Hope4Kids

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Contact information: wp2@kinderpalliatief.nl

Partners

International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN)

ICPCN is a global network seeking to improve acces to children’s palliative care. ICPCN’s network includes members in more than 140 countries. Members have access to ICPCN’s newsletter and online resources including educational content in many languages. ICPCN advocates for access and quality of children’s palliative care with the World Health Organization and other global platforms.

ICPCN

European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)

EAPC is a professional organization “committed to supporting the promotion and development of palliative care throughout Europe and beyond”. Our Center staff frequently attend and present at the EAPC annual conference. In addition they serve in leadership positions and support the administrative work of the EAPC Reference Group for Children and Young People. Our Director, Meggi Schuilling-Otten is currently Chair of the EAPC Reference Group for Children and Young People. This group serves to promote children’s palliative care throughout Europe.

European Association for Palliative Care

Maruzza Foundation

The Maruzza Foundation works to ensure the right to access palliative care for all children who need it. The Maruzza Foundation hosts the Maruzza International Congress in Rome, a major gathering for paediatric palliative care researchers and clinicians.

Maruzza Foundation

Resources

Courageous Parents Network

CPN aims to orient, equip and empower families and others caring for a child with a serious medical condition and provide digital resources and an extensive media library used by families and clinicians.

Center to Advance Palliative Care

The Center to Advance Palliative Care is a US based organization that has supported the growth of palliative care as a specialty clinical service since 1999. Their website offers free resources on pediatric program development, marketing of palliative care, and educational offerings for operations managers and clinicians. Program Development. 

Center to Advance Palliative Care

Childhood Cancer International

CCI is the largest childhood cancer patient support organization, with member organizations in more than 100 countries.

Childhood Cancer International

Together for Short Lives (TFSL)

TFSL is a UK based organization that provides family support (emotional and financial), advocates for children’s palliative care in the UK, and providers resources to clinicians working with children who have life-limiting illnesses. TFSL also hosts an online provider network where clinicians can share expertise with one another.

Research Resources

International News

Access now: Dutch paediatric palliative care guidelines in English

Global access: Dutch paediatric palliative care guidelines translated to English.


Kim van Teunenbroek (PhD candidate) and Dr. Erna Michiels (pediatric oncologist) have translated the recommendations on symptom treatment, palliative sedation, and forgoing hydration and nutrition of the Dutch guideline for paediatric palliative care into English. These translated recommendations are relevant for healthcare professionals who work with children in the palliative phase.

The translated recommendations are based on the revised guideline for paediatric palliative care, which was published at the end of 2022. The recommendations, together with the main conclusions of evidence and considerations, are described in two publications [van Teunenbroek 2023, van Teunenbroek 2024].

With the release of the translated recommendations, many more healthcare providers, parents, and children worldwide will be able to access and use these recommendations. Translation of recommendations on advance care planning, shared decision-making, psychosocial care, and preloss and bereavement care will follow later. Erna Michiels explains: “There has been increasing demand from abroad for the English translation of the revised Dutch guideline for pediatric palliative care. Evidence-based guidelines on pediatric palliative care were limited.”

The recommendations were translated by Erna Michiels in collaboration with English-speaking healthcare providers from the United Kingdom. The original recommendations were formulated by a large multidisciplinary working group of the revised Dutch guideline for paediatric palliative care. PZNL was involved as a process facilitator for the palliative care guidelines.


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