We are a team of expert multidisciplinary pediatric clinicians and academicians passionate about children’s rights and child-friendly healthcare in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. We are driven to make sustainable and evidence-based enhancements to Luxembourgish pediatric healthcare, bringing the country on par with global best practice standards for Luxembourg’s children, families, and healthcare professionals alike.
Informed by the Council of Europe Guidelines on Child-Friendly Healthcare, and the EACH Charter, LACH aims to serve as a support for clinics treating children by enhancing their ability to implement optimal care through providing resources including but not limited to:
Teaching practical tools for pediatric health practitioners to implement a child-friendly healthcare approach.
Funding child life specialists, experts providing evidence-based interventions with appropriate competences, dedication and knowledge of child-specific physical and well-being needs, as well as their psychosocial situation.
Increasing access to play and child-friendly hospital environments aimed at reducing stress and anxiety for pediatric patients and their families.
Fostering collaboration between academia, the community, government, and pediatric clinics to enhance child-friendly healthcare in Luxembourg and serving as subject matter experts.
Conducting research related to children's rights, child-friendly healthcare, and pediatric psychosocial care.
Hosting community education events to promote child-friendly healthcare and tools for coping with pediatric healthcare experiences as well as conferences and networking events in Luxembourg.
LACH is a registered nonprofit organization committed to promoting a child-friendly healthcare approach which is rights-based, child-focused and ensures children’s participation in healthcare decisions affecting them, taking into account their abilities, as well as the active involvement of the family.
We in Luxembourg have an opportunity to fulfill our obligations to evidenced-based child-friendly healthcare standards and further integrate rights-based pediatric best-practices into our hospitals by learning from existing models in neighboring European countries and globally, such as the child life specialist profession, and to participate with other expert networking groups and conferences where the Grand Duchy is not yet represented.
Unfortunately, Luxembourg lags behind many of its global counterparts in child-friendly healthcare practices, despite being signatory to the UN Rights of the Child, Council of Europe Guidelines on Child-Friendly Healthcare, JCI Guidelines, etc. Luxembourg also lacks representation in the European Children’s Hospitals Organisation (ECHO).
Understanding that creating alignment and synergy between interventions, organizations and individuals is crucial to effective child and family-centered healthcare, we forged passion with our multidisciplinary pediatric healthcare expertise to form the Luxembourg Association for Children in Hospital (LACH) in effort to embed children’s rights into the healthcare system through collaboration between the community, academia, and government.
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