Dr Lorna Fraser (Department of Health Sciences) delivers her YorkTalk ‘Caring about the evidence: changing the face of palliative care for children in the UK’ at the University of York, January 2020.
With twice as many children suffering life-threatening illnesses as suffer from type 1 diabetes - and just 15 specialist paediatric palliative care consultants across the country - Dr Lorna Fraser and her team are leading a research programme to provide a better evidence base for the support these children and their families really need. Generously funded by the Martin House children's hospice, this work follows hot on the heels of Dr Fraser's research in Scotland, which contributed to a £30m investment in children's palliative care north of the border.
It also runs in parallel to the independent evaluation she is carrying out into NHS England's pilot for a 'managed clinical network' for palliative care that will be rolled out across the country. From the personal stories of children and their parents through to big picture epidemiological studies, York is helping change the face of children's palliative care.
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