Professionals working with terminally ill children need to broach thesubject of death much earlier, according to experts from Great OrmondStreet Hospital.
The warning comes ahead of a Government review into children'spalliative care, which is due to be published this week. It is expectedto include recommendations on how to improve care for dying children.The research, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics last week,found the number of children dying in intensive care has increasedduring the last decade, despite no changes in admissions rates.
"Not all children and their families want to be in intensive care," saysreport author Dr Finella Craig. "Earlier discussion of the options iskey. Often professionals talk to parents without saying that their childis going to die whatever they do."
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