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Welcome to the European Cleft Gateway

The Gateway is a resource for families, health professionals and researchers. It is a comprehensive directory of specialist hospitals, doctors, researchers, support groups, scientific organisations and NGO’s that work in the field of cleft lip and palate throughout Europe. Whether you want to search for the nearest hospital or specialist offering treatment of cleft lip and palate, or find a clinician interested in the same research area as you, this is the place to do it.

There are multiple search buttons for different types of users. You can SEARCH as a parent, clinician or researcher and then filter your search in various ways to find the information you are looking for.

If you work in the area of cleft lip and palate you can also add your own, or your organisation’s, details through this upload button
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The Gateway site was funded by the European Science Foundation EUROCleftNet programme and is endorsed by the World Health Organisation

ECO Country Projects

ECO works with identified local cleft teams and helps put in place referral networks to ensure that every baby born with a cleft, and their family, receives timely support and treatment by a specialist team that includes, in addition to surgery, nursing and psychosocial support, orthodontics and speech and language therapy. We achieve this...

European Guidelines Cleft Care

Early in 2015 ECO achieved its mission of developing a set of guidelines in early cleft care, agreed at a European level. Access to good treatment varies enormously throughout Europe, meaning that many children born with clefts are never given the opportunity to realise their full potential. Furthermore babies with clefts are still abandoned...

Partners in ERASMUS + European Union grants

ECO is delighted that two Erasmus+ grant applications in which ECO is a partner have been successful. Face Value and When Looks Get in the Way aim respectively at training within health professional and higher education environments. We will benefit financially from this but perhaps more importantly we are now partners in four EU-funded...

Bulgaria

Our longest-running partnership has been with the cleft team in Plovdiv, Bulgaria where we have been working to reduce the number of babies born with clefts being sent to orphanages. A survey we conducted for UNICEF in 2009 showed that nearly 40 per cent of parents of children with clefts were advised to put...