Dear Colleague

I am writing to you to ask for your help. We would like to contact other members of the EAPC who are working in paediatric palliative care. At a recent meeting of the EAPC Paediatric Palliative Care Steering Group, education for healthcare professionals in children?s palliative care was identified area in need of development. A taskforce has been formed to produce a core curriculum for healthcare professionals working in paediatric palliative care in Europe. To read more click here

The taskforce plans to explore the range of paediatric palliative care educational programmes available across europe and to draw common themes and elements of these programmes into a core curriculum. Programmes for all healthcare professionals will be considered.

Plan of work:

• Identify education programmes currently provided for healthcare professionals working with children with life-limiting conditions
• Recognise and utilise work of previous EAPC task forces on education including: nursing, physicians, and psychologists
• Compare and identify core components of curricula
• Liaise and collaborate with colleagues throughout Europe regarding education programmes provided

Goal: To produce a core curriculum for healthcare professionals working in paediatric palliative care in Europe.

We are enclosing a brief questionnaire asking for contact details of those working in education in paediatric palliative care in your country and ask that you complete this and return it to:

Wilma Henkel
Vodafone Foundation Institute and Chair for Children's Pain Therapy and Paediatric Palliative Care
email: w.henkel@kinderklinik-datteln.de

I would like to thank you for your help!

Yours sincerely,

Julie Ling
Chairperson
Paediatric Palliative Care Education Taskforce