Tag Archives: World Hospice and Palliative Care Day

Do you know how to access #palliativecare when you need it?

Posted on October 13, 2017 by

Continuing the Salzburg Questions series that encourages a global discussion about the key issues affecting palliative care. Today, ahead of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day tomorrow (14 October 2017), Dr Stephen Connor, Executive Director Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance … Continue reading →

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Achieving universal coverage of palliative care: Dispelling the myths Couverture universelle en matière de soins palliatifs et déconstruction des mythes

Posted on October 11, 2013 by

CLIQUEZ ICI POUR LA VERSION FRANÇAISE Sharon Baxter, Board of Trustees, Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, Executive Director, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, urges us all to support this year’s World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on 12 October. World Hospice … Continue reading →

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A first for Kazakhstan: palliative care included on agenda of leading oncology and radiotherapy congress

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

Dr Tom Lynch, Researcher, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK   Background There are currently five organisations providing inpatient palliative care in five areas of Kazakhstan – Almaty, Pavlodar, Karaganda, Ust-Kamenogorsk and Kostanai; there is also one … Continue reading →

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