Category Archives: INTERVIEWS & TRIBUTES

Marie Charlotte Bouësseau: Reflecting on a decade of work on palliative care at the World Health Organization.

Posted on March 28, 2023 by pallcare

Marie Charlotte Bouësseau from the World Health Organization retires this week.  The EAPC are pleased to be joining many others in paying tribute to her significant contribution to global palliative care.  Marie Charlotte has truly made a difference to the … Continue reading →

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Did anyone hold your hand as you learned the trade of palliative care? A tribute to Elisabeth Earnshaw-Smith, 1929 – 2023.

Posted on February 7, 2023 by pallcare

Elisabeth Earnshaw-Smith, pioneer of palliative care social work and psycho-social palliative care, and first Director of Social Work at St Christopher’s Hospice, died in January 2023, at the age of 93 years. David Oliviere pays tribute to an extraordinary life … Continue reading →

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Don’t Say She Lost Her Battle: making a film about my mum’s death.

Posted on November 15, 2022 by pallcare

The words we use matter. Especially when discussing subjects that inform end-of-life decisions. Today, Oisín Liam Power, Irish writer and film maker, tells us about the inspiration behind his new short film – and why metaphorical war language should be … Continue reading →

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Love, life, death, and a price. Worth a Ventafridda Award?

Posted on September 12, 2022 by pallcare

Vittorio Ventafridda was a palliative care pioneer and in 2007, the Maruzza Foundation established an award in his honour. It is given each year to a clinician who has demonstrated outstanding initiative and enterprise in the paediatric palliative care sector … Continue reading →

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Palliative Care on Stage: Cicely Saunders and a world changing encounter.

Posted on August 2, 2022 by pallcare

There aren’t often plays about palliative care (though we think there should be!) so we are delighted to highlight a new production debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this month.  Sociologist and now playwright, Professor David Clark tells us about … Continue reading →

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