We wear different hats every day as we care for children living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Some of our hats are as parents, siblings, caregivers, nurses, paediatricians, oncologists, teachers, donors, advocates… the list is endless. Whichever hat you wear to improve the lives of seriously ill children around the world, make your voice heard by joining us this year for #HatsOn4CPC.
Hats On for Children’s Palliative Care has been marked every second Friday of October for eleven years. This week on Friday 11 October 2024 we will be wearing our hats in solidarity for children’s palliative care. Join thousands of people from all over the world as we mark another year of #HatsOn4CPC. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the World Health Assembly Resolution on Palliative Care.
As we celebrate all that has been done to improve children’s palliative care, we want to raise awareness of the many gaps that still exist especially in low and middle-income countries. 48% of the countries are still at the lowest level of CPC development with some having no services at all and only 11% of countries have a national policy for children’s palliative care. Just 32% of countries have training for doctors and 26% for nurses.
#HatsOn4CPC is more than just wearing a hat. It’s a symbol of solidarity for the many parents, siblings, and health and social care professionals who wear different hats every day as they navigate the complex challenges of caring for a child with a life-limiting condition. This year our ask is: What hat will you wear for children’s palliative care? So please use this campaign to raise awareness in your country with families, colleagues, funders, and decision-makers, or use it to raise funds for your organisation or ICPCN.
This #HatsOn4CPC day we have launched a Global Giving Campaign – Transforming Children’s Palliative Care Globally – to support the work of ICPCN to help reduce these inequities – please do partner with us and support our work as we seek to reduce the needless suffering of millions of children and their families around the world.
Whichever hat you wear, let’s don our hats to celebrate the amazing work you are all doing around the world as well as highlight the gaps and make our voices heard this #HatsOn4CPC day so that together we can reduce the unnecessary pain and suffering of the millions of children and their families around the world needing palliative care who can’t access it.
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