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Children’s Palliative Care Foundation Officially Established / Exchange of Information through Children’s Palliative Care Symposium

14 Oct 2018

Since 1999, the children’s palliative care team of Children’s Cancer Foundation (CCF) has been providing 24/7 palliative and home care services such as symptoms relief, emotional support and bereavement care to young patients with advanced cancer.  In launching a pilot project to provide palliative home care services to non-cancer patients with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses in 2011, we are aware that these patients have even greater needs for palliative home care support. Hence, the Children’s Palliative Care Foundation (CPCF), an entity owned by CCF was established this year to provide quality palliative and home care services not only to child cancer patients but also to non-cancer seriously ill patients.

 

 

 

 

A Children’s Palliative Care Symposium 2018 was held at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on October 14 with an aim to bring together interested parties from local and overseas together with parents of children with life-limiting illness to have an open dialogue, under one roof, to exchange and discuss the current situation and challenges of children’s palliative care in Hong Kong.  

 

Presentations of guest speakers are provided below:

 

Children’s Palliative Care Symposium 2018 (Morning session)

 

Guest Speaker

Topic

Ms Molin Lin

Professional Services Manager

Children’s Palliative Care Foundation

CCF Celebrates 19 years of Pioneering Children’s Palliative Care Service (CPC): Our Service Model

Mr Benson Cheung

Governor

Children’s Cancer Foundation

Parent's Reflection

Professor Julia Downing

Chief Executive of International Children’s Palliative Care Network

What is CPC:

Benefits and Challenges

-  Professor Li Chi-kong

Chairman of The Hong Kong Society of Children’s Palliative Care

-  Dr Man Sze-shun

Associate Consultant, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Tuen Mun Hospital

Current Situation and Future Development

Ms Chan Yin-ling

Advanced Practice Nurse

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

United Christian Hospital

Bereavement Support in Neonatal Intensive Care

Professor Julia Downing

Chief Executive of International Children’s Palliative Care Network

Global Development of CPC

 

 

 

Children’s Palliative Care Symposium 2018 (Afternoon session) (Chinese Only)

 

Guest Speaker

Topic

Dr Stephen Chan

Council Member of The Hong Kong Society of Children’s Palliative Care

Introduction of CPC

 

Ms Shum Siu-fong

Chairperson of The Hong Kong Special Schools Council

Current Situations and Challenges of Special Schools in Hong Kong

Dr Sham Kwan-ho

Associate Consultant of Psychiatry Department

United Christian Hospital

Parental Grief from a Psychiatrist’s Perspective