Heather's blog

I mentioned last week that I was having my head shaved in my bid to raise £7,000 to help support of life threatened or terminally ill children and their families. Most years I take on a fundraiser and...

Enjoy today, hair, because I’m off to the hairdressers tomorrow and you’re coming off in my bid to raise £7,000 to help support of life threatened or terminally ill children and their families! Sin...

We have seen in past blogs how important social palliative care can be to a family’s well-being but it’s notoriously hard to measure the impact of our service and set meaningful outcomes that are meas...

Remember that grief is not something you get over, it is something you walk through. My shoes are worn and my feet hurt from this walk. (Author unknown) In our society the death of a child is, thank...

Research commissioned for Rainbow Trust in 2012 by the York Health Economics Consortium 2012 final report shows that funding at a social level for palliative care has a huge and tangible impact for si...