Palliative care
Paediatric palliative medicine doctors work with babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions and life-threatening illness, and their families - find out more about this sub-specialty.
Rosetrees Trust - Project Grants [CLOSED]
Funds translational research that will lead to major advances in medical treatment. Priority will be given to projects addressing a key clinical need and have a good chance of being developed further towards clinical translation and patient benefit.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
£100,001 to £250,000
Maximum duration
3 years
Submission deadline
Medical Research Council - Various Research Grants
The Medical Research Council offer regular, continuous funding opportunities. Funding is available for groups and individuals in any scientific area relevant to the MRC.
Award programme/theme
Early career investigator award
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
Health Foundation - Efficiency Research Programme [CLOSED]
The programme aims to research ideas on the new ways of thinking that generate new knowledge with a focus on productivity and retention within the health care workforce.
Award programme/theme
Programme grant
Funding amount range
£250,001 to £500,000
Maximum duration
3-5 years
Health Foundation - Policy Challenge Fund [CLOSED]
To support high-quality, original policy analysis that will generate insight to support and inform policy makers on important current and future issues in UK health policy.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
£50,001 to £100,000
Maximum duration
Up to 1 year
Health Foundation - Innovating for Improvement [CLOSED]
Aims to support innovative approaches and ideas. Projects should test and develop ideas and approaches to improve health and social care delivery or the way people manage their own health care in the UK.
Award programme/theme
Innovation award
Funding amount range
£50,001 to £100,000
Maximum duration
15 months
The Brain Tumour Charity - Quality of Life Awards [CLOSED]
Intended to increase the understanding of issues to do with quality of life, in particular the range of symptoms that affect a person’s emotional wellbeing, and could lead to a reduction in the burden of these issues. The project can focus on any part of the patient pathway from diagnosis to remission and survivorship, or end-of-life care.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
£250,001 to £500,000
Maximum duration
3 years
Committee
Paediatric Palliative Medicine CSAC
The College Specialty Advisory Committees (CSACs) supervise the development and delivery of subspecialty training and the assessment standards. CSACs are sub-committees of our Education and Training Quality Committee, which helps the College set these standards within a training programme that is re...
Resource
Making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in children: a framework for practice (DtLT)
This framework is currently available on the Archives on Disease in Childhood. It was published in 2014 (and superseded a previous version in 2004) and provides guidance on one of the most ethically complex areas in paediatrics: when to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment in children.