In announcing its End of Life Care Strategy last week, the Department of Health pledged £286m for adult services. But a similar strategy for children's palliative care, released in February, failed to put a figure on the amount primary care trusts can spend on such services. Barbara Gelb, chief executive of Children's Hospices UK, said: "The government's reluctance to tell primary care trusts how much is obstructing much-needed improvements in local children's palliative care services." However, Children's Hospices UK and the Association...