Hospices Archives - PatchSA https://patchsa.org/category/hospices/ People who care supporting people who care Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:25:09 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Media highlights lack of progress in providing palliative care to children of South Africa https://patchsa.org/media-highlights-lack-of-progress-in-providing-palliative-care-to-children-of-south-africa/ https://patchsa.org/media-highlights-lack-of-progress-in-providing-palliative-care-to-children-of-south-africa/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:09:14 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3501 22 January 2022 Reports in the Mail & Guardian & Daily Maverick highlight lack of progress in providing palliative care to children in South Africa and appropriate support to their families Journalist Chris Bateman has written two excellent reports on the devastating consequences of inaction by our health authorities to prioritize pallaitive care for [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/media-highlights-lack-of-progress-in-providing-palliative-care-to-children-of-south-africa/feed/ 0 We’ve changed our name to Palliative Care for Children South Africa https://patchsa.org/weve-changed-our-name-to-palliative-care-for-children-south-africa/ https://patchsa.org/weve-changed-our-name-to-palliative-care-for-children-south-africa/#respond Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:46:16 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3463 5 January 2022 PatchSA has changed its name. It's a small change but the meaning behind it is everything! The South African Children's Palliative Care Network (SACPCN) was officially launched at the 25th Anniversary conference of the Hospice palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) in September of 2012. A year later, after consultation [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/weve-changed-our-name-to-palliative-care-for-children-south-africa/feed/ 0 History in the making – developing national guidance for providing palliative care https://patchsa.org/developing-national-guidance-for-providing-palliative-care/ https://patchsa.org/developing-national-guidance-for-providing-palliative-care/#respond Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:09:16 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3432 12 December 2021 History was made last week when a group of palliative care experts from the country met in Gauteng to start the process of developing National Guidelines on Palliative Care with the support of the National Department of Health. For the first time in the history of the development of palliative care [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/developing-national-guidance-for-providing-palliative-care/feed/ 0 How can speech and language therapy enhance the palliative care journey? https://patchsa.org/how-speech-language-therapy-enhance-palliative-care-journey/ https://patchsa.org/how-speech-language-therapy-enhance-palliative-care-journey/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:49:56 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3329 18 August 2021 Colleen Francis, a Speech Language Pathologist, describes her journey of discovery about palliative care and her thoughts on the valuable role Speech Language Therapists can play within the palliative care and children's palliative care team. As Speech Therapy students we were taught that we play a role throughout a person’s life, [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/how-speech-language-therapy-enhance-palliative-care-journey/feed/ 0 Iris House celebrates a decade of caring https://patchsa.org/iris-house-celebrates-a-decade-of-caring/ https://patchsa.org/iris-house-celebrates-a-decade-of-caring/#respond Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:02:00 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3280 21 July 2021 Iris House Children's Hospice recently celebrated a decade of providing supportive and therapeutic care, presently supporting 588 children with special needs in 46 communities in and around the Cape Metro and West Coast The mission of Iris House Children's Hospice is to provide holistic, loving, professional, free community and hospice [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/iris-house-celebrates-a-decade-of-caring/feed/ 0 Lambano Sanctuary https://patchsa.org/lambano-sanctuary/ https://patchsa.org/lambano-sanctuary/#respond Sun, 06 May 2018 13:52:50 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=1013 We need your help and input to identify and map children’s palliative care service providers and services in South Africa, so that we can help families access the necessary support they need.

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