In the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, a Paediatric Palliative Care Team has just been launched. Made up of health professionals from Specialised Care Paediatrics and Primary Care; and Palliative Care that collaborate closely with psychologists and social workers. They also have the support of two associations: FARO and ASPACE, which will offer individualized care to children who have life-threatening or life-limiting pathologies.

Pediatric Palliative Care seeks to provide these children with comfort and quality of life, covering their physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs.

This equipment is in addition to others that are already in operation in other hospitals of the National Health System.

In Andalusia, Parliament will approve this week a non-legislative proposal signed by all the groups that make up the Chamber, in which they urge the Junta to create without delay a network of paediatric palliative care that includes all Andalusian hospitals. It is requested that "an integrated model of care be created for the entire Autonomous Community equal to the one already established for adults" That children who need it can be cared for in Andalusian hospitals and at home.
In the Andalusian Community, it is estimated that about 1,200 children under 20 years of age may need pediatric palliative care.

The Andalusian Minister of Health already stated that in Andalusia "maximum priority" was going to be given to the development of Paediatric Palliative Care.