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Association of Children's Hospices
1st FloorCanningford House
38 Victoria Street
Bristol
BS1 6BY
Tel: 0117 989 7820
Tel: 0117 929 1999
Web: www.childhospice.org.uk
The Association of Children’s Hospices (ACH) is a registered charity which brings together over 40 voluntary sector children’s hospice services throughout the UK dedicated to the care of children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families.
ACH is the national voice representing children’s hospice services in the UK, and through them the life-limited children and their families who use them. The charity works together with other organisations to support the development of best practice and provision of children’s hospice services across the UK. All ACH’s activities are shaped by a philosophy which keeps the life-limited children and their families at the heart of their work.
ACH offers a wide range of support and information for care professionals and other practitioners working in the field of children’s palliative care.
The support includes the Palliative Care Forum (PCF), its tri-annual journal ‘Linchpin’ and an annual two day PCF conference.
There is also a wealth of literature relating to children’s palliative care and children’s hospice services which can be accessed through their website.
Checked: May 2006
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