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press releases | 12/02/2026
Bavaria strengthens palliative care for children and adults

Bavarian Ministry of Health funds two projects at Munich's LMU Hospital with over half a million euros 

Bavaria is strengthening palliative care for children and adults. Health Minister Judith Gerlach pointed this out on Wednesday on the occasion of the funding of the "Children's ACP" and "IPOS App" projects at the LMU University Hospital Munich Großhadern. She emphasized: "We are not creating isolated solutions with these projects, but a blueprint for the whole of Bavaria. It is important that we can offer people throughout Bavaria the best possible medical and nursing support until the very end. Our primary goal is to ensure that the services are geared towards people's needs and wishes."
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Head of Office and Ministerial Director Dr. Rainer Hutka visited the LMU Klinikum Großhadern on February 11. The "IPOS App" project initiated by Prof. Bausewein at the palliative care unit at Großhadern Hospital is being supported with around 420,000 euros.

Gerlach explained: "When children and young people fall seriously ill at an early age, it throws the whole family's life off course. Families have to make existential decisions. In order to avoid being unprepared and left to their own devices, the project 'Bavaria-wide introduction of health care planning for children (Advance Care Planning for Children)' initiated by Prof. Monika Führer comes into play."

The Minister added: "The core of the project is a structured discussion process in which affected families, together with the care team, therapists and doctors, discuss and document in advance how to act in emergency situations. This leads to greater orientation, confidence and less emotional stress for both the families and the treatment team."

Prof. Monika Führer, Head of the Children's Palliative Care Center at LMU University Hospital Munich: "We are very grateful to the Ministry of Health for funding this project. The willingness of all seven outpatient children's palliative care teams in Bavaria to participate in the project makes it possible to make the MAPPS advance care planning program developed at the Children's Palliative Care Center of the LMU Hospital available to affected families throughout Bavaria and thus improve the quality of care and the sense of security of all those involved. An important element of the project is that those who experience crisis situations with the children and their families, for example as educators or teachers, and who assist them on site as carers or emergency physicians, are involved in the further development of the program."

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Das Bayerische Gesundheitsministerium fördert das Projekt „Advance Care Planning für Kinder“ am Kinderpalliativzentrum des LMU Klinikums mit rund 127.000 Euro.

The Bavarian Ministry of Health is funding the "Advance Care Planning for Children" project developed by Prof. Führer and running for three years at the Children's Palliative Care Center of the LMU Klinikum Großhadern with around 127,000 euros.

Gerlach emphasized: "In the field of adult palliative care, the focus is not only on conventional findings but also on patients' well-being. For the first time, they can transmit their physical symptoms, psychological stress or practical problems directly to their patient file using the IPOS app(Integrated PalliativeCare Outcome Scale) without any documentation detours. The palliative care unit team can use this information to track the current course of the disease and thus react even earlier to changes or deterioration. The app has already been developed by the LMU Hospital and is now to be used throughout Bavaria."

Prof. Claudia Bausewein, Director of the Department of Palliative Medicine, LMU Klinikum: "Thanks to the support of the Bavarian State Ministry, we can introduce this innovative solution in palliative care units throughout Bavaria. The IPOS app will help to sustainably improve the quality of care and provide patients with the best possible support in a particularly vulnerable phase of their lives."

Medical Director and Chairman of the Board of LMU Klinikum, Prof. Markus M. Lerch: "We would like to thank our Health Minister for supporting two projects for people with incurable diseases. One helps families with affected children to plan their care much better. The second gives people at the end of their lives back a large part of their autonomy and self-determination."

Gerlach added: "Palliative care is not just a medical specialty, but above all an idea and an attitude. It thrives on us constantly raising public awareness of it. The Bavarian state government therefore supports numerous innovative projects in order to further develop palliative care and broaden its scope."

The Bavarian Ministry of Health is funding the "Advance Care Planning for Children" project developed by Prof. Führer and running for three years at the Children's Palliative Care Center at LMU Klinikum Großhadern with around 127,000 euros.

The "IPOS App" project initiated by Prof. Bausewein and also running for three years at the palliative care unit at Großhadern Hospital is being supported with around 420,000 euros.

Further information on hospice and palliative care can be found at: https://www.stmgp.bayern.de/gesundheitsversorgung/hospiz-palliativ/.

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