Palliative care
Palliative care for children with cancer
Looking after adult patients requiring palliative and end-of-life care can be challenging, but looking after children needing palliative and end-of-life care can be even harder. It is against the normal order of things.
Below, we have listed a range of resources that you may find useful.
- NICE guidance for end-of-life care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions: NICE NG61 (2019)
- Childhood cancer end of life care: Information for General Practitioners – a publication produced by the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust and the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group
- BNF for Children – Prescribing in palliative care. This is a useful section for palliative care in children.
- Together for Short Lives: Basic Symptom Control in Paediatric Palliative Care Free Download edition 9.5
- Together for Short Lives. End of life planning prompt sheets, 2012
- Royal College of General Practice E-Learning module on Child and Infant Loss and Bereavement. Kelly J, 2017. This is a useful resource giving practical ideas to General Practitioners to help support families through all types of child and infant loss.
