News and Comment

Together for Short Lives welcomes advice issued by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which aims to promote consensus between parents and doctors when they face difficult decisions about a child’s care. The new document, ‘Achieving Consensus: advice...

St Oswald’s Hospice, based in Newcastle upon Tyne has launched a pilot outpatient clinic to support young adults with complex and life-limiting conditions who are moving from children’s to adult health services, as well as GPs and other healthcare professionals...

With an aim to provide happiness through the joy of family fun, Gravity Trampoline Parks has become a charity partner of Together for Short Lives.

Together for Short Lives has welcomed an independent review which has found that high quality care is available to seriously ill young people at Wales’ children’s hospices. However, the charity has called on Welsh ministers to take action to make...

For many of us Mother’s Day is one of those diary dates filled with mixed emotions. For lots of mums there’ll be breakfast in bed, lovely cuddles and family time; perhaps there will be tinges of sadness too for those...

The ‘Talking about… sex and relationships: Young people speak out’ project is led by the AdversiTeam - a Facebook group of young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, who share ideas, thoughts and wishes, comment on and contribute to work,...