Category Archives: NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Palliative Care: Surrounding You With Support

Posted on September 9, 2019 by

This week, the island of Ireland is celebrating Palliative Care Week #pallcareweek… Karen Charnley, Director, All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC), explains how good information and support are the cornerstone of this year’s campaign and introduces the … Continue reading →

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Developing palliative care nursing in Brazil: Professor Sheila Payne interviews Professor Fabiana Bolela de Souza

Posted on July 31, 2019 by

Fabiana Bolela de Souza, a Professor in Nursing at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, talks to Professor Sheila Payne from the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK, about her perspectives and … Continue reading →

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Palliative Medicine in Practice: An opportunity to share your work widely and build your academic reputation

Posted on June 26, 2019 by

Dr Wojciech Leppert, Editor–in–Chief, and Dr Leszek Pawłowski, Secretary/Editor, ‘Palliative Medicine in Practice’, invite you to submit your work to this open access journal, published in the English language.   We are delighted to take this opportunity to encourage readers of this … Continue reading →

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Transforming learning in palliative care

Posted on June 5, 2019 by

Heather Richardson, Joint Chief Executive at St Christopher’s, London, UK, explains how a conversation with two doctors from Rwanda and Bangladesh has led to radical changes at St Christopher’s to reflect contemporary opportunities and challenges. In the last plenary of … Continue reading →

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Continuous deep sedation until death: French recommendations

Posted on March 4, 2019 by

Cliquez ici pour la version en français. Frédéric Guirimand, MD, PhD, is a physician and Head of Research and Education at La Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier, an 81-bed palliative care unit in Paris. Here, Dr Guirimand, who has played a … Continue reading →

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Milestones: Fifty years of hospice and palliative care in Germany

Posted on February 11, 2019 by

ONLY 101 DAYS TO #EAPC2019 … AHEAD OF THE 16TH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE (EAPC) TO BE HELD IN BERLIN, GERMANY, 23 TO 25 MAY 2019, WE BRING YOU SOME SPECIAL POSTS TO WELCOME YOU TO … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to us! German Association for Palliative Medicine celebrates 25 years

Posted on February 1, 2019 by

ONLY 112 DAYS TO #EAPC2019 … AHEAD OF THE 16TH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE – BERLIN, GERMANY, 23-25 MAY 2019 – WE BRING YOU THE FIRST OF SOME  SPECIAL POSTS TO WELCOME YOU TO BERLIN. Today, … Continue reading →

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