The ICPCN is the only global membership network working for the right of children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions to receive palliative care.

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Joined July 2010
🎩💚 What a fantastic #HatsOn4CPC 2026! A huge THANK YOU to everyone who wore a hat, raised awareness and helped shine a spotlight on children’s palliative care worldwide. 🌍 🎥 Take a look at some of this year’s highlights! #ClosetheGap4CPC
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💡Join our ICPCN Research Hub Series: Research Incubator! 📅 10 November 2026 | ⏰ 17:00–18:00 GMT Connect, share ideas and spark collaboration in children’s palliative care research with speakers Micha Massad and Dorothy Adong Olet. #ICPCN #ChildrensPalliativeCare
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Lovely to spend time with colleagues @julia_downing (@ICPCN) and @JohtChandan! #PalliativeCare #GlobalHealth #BreastCancerAwareness #UCLA [Visual description: Three colleagues smile together in a hotel lobby beneath a branching chandelier, in front of a gold artwork and a mustard velvet armchair.]
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🌍 The 7th @MaruzzaCongress is underway in Rome! ICPCN Chief Executive Prof @julia_downing and Board members Dr @mcneilm87, Dr @EmilyHarrop9 and Prof @justinnbaker are all speaking. Advancing PPC through research and shared learning! #ICPCN #MaruzzaCongress2026
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🐣 Great to see early bird registration is still open for #APHC27OPCC! Join the palliative care community in #Adelaide, 20–23 April 2027, under the theme “Stronger Together”. 🔗 Register: aphc27opcc.com/registration/ @aphnofficial
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🎓 Studying for a PhD, MPhil or other higher research degree in #Children’sPalliativeCare? Join our first ICPCN Research Student Circle on 26 October at 18:00 GMT! 🤝 Connect, share experiences and find support. 🔗 Sign up: research.icpcn.org/ #ICPCNResearchHub
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🔬 Help grow the #ICPCNResearchHub! 🔸Create your researcher profile 🔸Share your ongoing studies 🔸Connect and collaborate with fellow researchers Together, we can strengthen global collaboration and advance children's palliative care research. 🔗 research.icpcn.org
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💜 Honouring grief In this heartfelt story, Michaela Evanow shares how the experiences of bereaved parents can shape more compassionate children’s palliative care. Thank you to Michaela and @CanuckPlace for sharing this important perspective. bit.ly/4ytbEGJ
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🚀 Today’s the day! Join us for the launch celebration of the #ICPCNResearchHub. 📅 Today, 13th October 17:30-19:00 GMT 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4r8Dp5H We hope you'll join us and be part of the conversation! 🌍🔬✨ #Research #ICPCN
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📢 New paper published today! Led by Dr Eve Namisango, @APCAssociation, along with our CEO @julia_downing, it explores co-designing principles to involve children and young people in palliative care research. 📖 Read the paper: bit.ly/4AYImm9 #ChildrensPalliativeCare
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🧢 Let’s keep the hats rolling! What an incredible #HatsOn4CPC day yesterday! 🎉🎩 If you’re continuing your events this weekend, keep sharing your photos and tagging ICPCN. Let’s keep raising awareness and #ClosetheGap4CPC! 🌍
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From #HatsOn4CPC to #WHPCDay26! 🌍 This year’s @whpca #WHPCDay26 theme is Pain Management: An Essential Part of Palliative Care. Every child deserves effective pain management. Let’s #ClosetheGap4CPC! 📄 Our policy brief: bit.ly/4ixWMCI 🔗More: icpcn.org/close-the-gap/
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🎩🌍 WHAT A DAY! Thank you to everyone who took part in #HatsOn4CPC today! From homes and workplaces to healthcare teams and communities worldwide, you’ve helped raise awareness of children’s palliative care. The message continues: #ClosetheGap4CPC! 🧡
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💚 Behind every hat is a reason. Today we’re having fun, but #HatsOn4CPC also has a serious purpose: raising awareness of children’s palliative care and helping #ClosetheGap4CPC. 🌍🎩 What does your hat stand for? Read more about Close the Gap here: icpcn.org/close-the-gap/
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Greater Accra Regional Hospital Ghana have certainly been getting into the #HatsOn4CPC spirit today!! 🎉🌍
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Today is Hats On for Palliative Care Day! 🎩 “What hat will you wear to close the gap?” We’re privileged to provide compassionate, family-centred care, and for the opportunity to be part of closing the gap for children and families who need palliative care. #HatsOn4CPC
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❤️ Behind every hat are children and families who need access to palliative care. Nobuhle’s story of her son Neo shows why this matters and why we must #ClosetheGap4CPC. 🌍 Read their story: bit.ly/3U7u2Ha #HatsOn4CPC #ChildrensPalliativeCare #ICPCN
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Team @WChildCancer are going all out for #HatsOn4CPC on Ghana! 🥳
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📸🎩 SHOW US YOUR HATS! We’ve seen some fantastic #HatsOn4CPC celebrations today! Share your photos, videos and stories and tag ICPCN. Every hat helps start a conversation about children’s palliative care. 🧡 Keep the hats coming! #ClosetheGap4CPC
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👟🎩 Still moving for #HatsOn4CPC? Walk, run, cycle or swim in your favourite hat and turn your miles into action for children’s palliative care. 🌍 Every mile helps raise awareness. Wear your hat. Cover the miles. Change lives. miles.icpcn.org/ #ClosetheGap4CPC
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