Children’s Palliative Care Programme a big support for terminally-ill children

Hundreds of terminally ill children in Ireland have had their lives greatly improved by a new palliative care programme.

The Children’s Palliative Care Programme (CPCP), which included outreach nurses and training programmes, was adopted seven years ago and its impact has just been evaluated.

Lucy Greene lives with her family in Co Clare. They lost two babies, Darragh and Ronan, due to a rare disorder. Darragh died in 2008, when he was aged almost six months, and Ms Greene said there seemed to be “very little help available” to them at the time.