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Category Archives: National and international events
Honouring the spirit within: the Namaste care programme for people with dementia at the end of their lives
Dr Jo Hockley, Nurse Consultant, and Min Stacpoole, Nurse Researcher, Care Homes Project Team at St Christopher’s Hospice. Namaste… I think we all know it is an Indian greeting but do we know what it means? Min and I didn’t … Continue reading
Spare a thought for improving palliative care in China
Dr Mei Qi and Professor Sheila Payne explain how doctors in China have used the framework of the Budapest Commitments to improve palliative care for cancer patients. This example of partnership working across the world shows how the EAPC has … Continue reading
The Big Five revisited…
Birgit Jaspers, researcher, University of Bonn, Germany, and Eva Schumacher, nurse at the Palliative Care Centre, Malteser Hospital Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany, had a great, but also challenging time at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. Thanks to Dr Esther Cege Munyoro, who … Continue reading
Kyrgyzstan: Celebrating World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
Stephen R Connor, PhD, International Palliative Care Consultant I am writing from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan where we have just celebrated World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. At the time of writing I had just finished appearing on a live morning … Continue reading
Governments are failing cancer patients
Professor Nathan Cherny, Project Lead and Coordinator of ‘The International Collaborative Project to Evaluate the Availability and Accessibility of Opioids for the Management of Cancer Pain’, the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. On 29 September in Vienna, at the Congress … Continue reading
