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© 2014 MA Healthcare Ltd while palliative care is sometimes misconstrued as compassionate care, care that prolongs life (sometimes in agony), and care that is only introduced when all treatments have failed. Understanding of paediatric palliative care as holistic, family centred care that is delivered by an interdisciplinary team, frequently in parallel with curative care, in order to improve the quality of the child’s life (Oriot, 2006; Abu-Saad Huijer et al, 2007) is not yet widespread in Belgium. Nor are these characteristics mentioned in the new law.