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Louis Dundas Centre for Children's Palliative Care
The Beginning听of the Louis Dundas Centre
In March 2010 ICH and GOSH, working with the GOSH Children's Charity were听awarded funding from the to support the establishment of the first Chair of Paediatric Palliative Care in the UK. 听The Chair role was created as a听resource with multiple aims. Through this appointment, the goals were to build an evidence base, increase research capacity and to have an impact on the Paediatric Palliative Care sector nationally and globally. 听The Chair would work with organisations such as , a UK charity supporting families with a seriously ill child听and the (ICPCN), a worldwide network of individuals and agencies working with children and young people with incurable or life-threatening illnesses regardless of where they are in the world. Through these collaborations, the work of the academic unit could in turn make its way to the government and policymakers.
The aims of this joint academic/clinical Centre hosted by both GOSH and ICH were "to conduct integrated, high quality, collaborative studies to听inform practice; and the development and implementation of educational and training programs designed to meet the needs of professionals serving children and young people with palliative care needs in the UK and across the world." 听The results of research were to be disseminated in high quality refereed journals, major texts and conferences.
Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner assumed the Chair in July 2010 with the added support of the Louis Dundas Centre (LDC) which Bruce and Ruth Dundas created to support and develop both the Palliative Care Team (PCT) at GOSH and the Academic Unit at ICH.听 Initial听funding enabled the Centre to hire: 听Senior Research Associate, Research Associate and a听Research Assistant. 听The True Colours Trust through GOSH Children's Charity, provided funds for the Chair and a PA / Unit Administrator. The Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit (MCPCRU) at 皇家华人 agreed to make a Research Associate available to help carry forward research sharing on children over 16 and young people.
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