Category Archives: EAPC Task Forces/Reference Groups

Hurdle Hopping: collaborating to overcome challenges in palliative care education.

Posted on February 28, 2023 by pallcare

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), insufficient knowledge about palliative care and the capacity of health workers to deliver it are significant barriers to accessing palliative care. For today’s blog, Professor Piret Paal from the newly founded Institute of … Continue reading →

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Research to meet the needs of family carers – announcing a significant step forward!

Posted on January 31, 2023 by pallcare

Palliative care services seek to improve the wellbeing of family carers of people living with serious and life-limiting illness but how can research in this area be done well? For January’s Palliative Medicine’s Editor’s Choice, Professor Peter Hudson and Professor Clare … Continue reading →

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Will you make it happen, Santa?

Posted on December 21, 2022 by pallcare

The EAPC’s Children and Young People Reference Group have just published the European Charter on Palliative Care. The aim of this very important Charter is to set out standards that can be used as a tool for empowering children, families … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Care in medicine- the Polish way.

Posted on October 11, 2022 by pallcare

The development of palliative care in Poland has triggered a new examination of medical care, including the spiritual suffering of patients. Dr Małgorzata Fopka-Kowalczyk, Professor Małgorzata Krajnik and Dr Megan Best tell us more. Palliative care began in Poland in … Continue reading →

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Leaders, advocates and voices for change: a message about future nurse leaders.

Posted on June 29, 2022 by pallcare

For our Palliative Care and Public Health blog series, Philip Larkin and Sonja McIlfatrick reflect on palliative care nursing ‘facts of life’, nurse education and call for a reorientation of the way in which nurses see their role. It is … Continue reading →

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