Our Work
Supporting Children & Families with Compassionate Care
Every child deserves comfort, dignity, and care
Outpatient Unit
Ensuring a Trusting & Supportive Environment
The Paedspal Outpatient Unit (POPU) provides a compassionate, multidisciplinary space for children with life-limiting illnesses and their families, offering holistic care, psychosocial support, and bereavement services. Our team collaborates with various role-players to ensure a supportive and nurturing environment prioritises each child’s unique journey.
Hospital Consultation Services
Providing Inter-Disciplinary Specialist Palliative Care & Support to Patients and Families
Paedspal provides specialist consultative palliative care at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Mowbray Maternity Hospital, offering:
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- Patient Assessments
- Symptom management
- Psycho-social support
- Assistance with difficult decisions and advance care planning
Outreach Programme
Supporting Communities with Compassion and Connection
Paedspal’s outreach programme focuses on building the capacity of primary healthcare teams to deliver generalist palliative care in their own settings while ensuring continuity of care for existing patients.
By supporting institutions with multiple palliative care patients, we reduce the need for costly transport and improve local access to care.
Our outreach efforts include education through multidisciplinary meetings, information sharing, and home visits in key areas like Atlantis. We also provide telephonic and electronic support to community-based teams and hospitals across the Western Cape.
Outreach Programme
Join Our Mission to Ease The Suffering of Children
Education & Training
Reaching Healthcare Professionals
At Paedspal, we equip healthcare professionals with the skills and knowledge to provide compassionate, holistic care to patients with life-limiting illnesses. Our palliative training focuses on relieving suffering, improving quality of life, and addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of both patients and their families.
Advocacy & Awareness
Palliative Care is Everyone’s Business
Paedspal has made and continues to make significant strides in national advocacy, policy development, and training for paediatric palliative care.
Paediatric Palliative Care Guidelines
Several members of the Paedspal team were involved in the writing of Paediatric Palliative Care guidelines for the National Department of Health. Dr Meiring was appointed to edit the guidelines with support from the World Health Organisation’s (WHO)
Paediatric Expert Review Committee (PERC)
National Essential Medicines List (NEML)
PATCHSA (Palliative Care for Children South Africa)
Paediatric Palliative Care Guidelines
Several members of the Paedspal team were involved in the writing of Paediatric Palliative Care guidelines for the National Department of Health. Dr Meiring was appointed to edit the guidelines with support from the World Health Organisation’s (WHO)
Paediatric Expert Review Committee (PERC)
National Essential Medicines List (NEML)
PATCHSA (Palliative Care for Children South Africa)
