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Pledges will help improve lives cut short

Parents and carers of children with life-shortening conditions will appeal to the government for better service provision today.

Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Alex Neil will hear directly from families at a "square table" event held by the charities, Together for Short Lives and Children's Hospice Association Scotland, at Edinburgh's Assembly rooms.

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