2025 is ICPCN’s 20th Anniversary – it was in March 2005 that ICPCN was formed by a group of pioneers attending a meeting in Seoul, South Korea and Joan Marston was elected as the first Chair of ICPCN and Barbara Gelb and Lizzie Chambers as Vice Chairs. Whilst recognising there is still a long way to go to ensure that all children who need palliative care around the world have access to palliative care services, it is important that we also recognise the achievements and developments within the field of palliative care over the past 20 years – and we will be celebrating some of these during 2025.
Thus in 2025 ICPCN is looking forward to an exciting year ahead with lots of activities and reasons to be excited.
In November 2025 we will be holding our 4th ICPCN Conference. Our conference – Milestones and Horizons – will be held in Manila, Philippines in partnership with the Ruth Foundation and a wide range of organisations within the country. Please see the ‘Save the Date’ below and there will be more information over the coming weeks on the ICPCN website and here on ehospice, and the conference website will be launched next month. ICPCN will also introduce you to and highlight the work of their many partners working with them on the conference. Please do put the date in your diary and see you there!In 2025 ICPCN will also be launching a Global Position Paper on Children’s Palliative Care and will be inviting organisations to endorse the position paper and carrying out an advocacy campaign in 2025 and 2026 – Please keep an eye out for more information on this campaign as ICPCN continues to raise the profile of children’s palliative care globally.
There will also be many exciting opportunities to get involved in communication, advocacy, research, education and strategic development throughout the year and ICPCN will tell you more about these as they come up.
So, as you can see, the team at ICPCN are feeling excited for 2025 and hope that you will partner with them throughout the year as they promote the development of children’s palliative care around the world.
