This initiative led by Palliative Care McGill, International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care, International Children’s Palliative Care Network, Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, Cicely Saunders Institute, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association and the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians called on delegates of the 20th International Congress on Palliative Care and others to support the following Montreal Declaration for the inclusion of hospice and palliative care in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Read the Declaration and sign this petition
This proposal for a special edition of Palliative Medicine aims to address the increasingly important topic of integrated care in the context of palliative and end-of-life care service delivery. Integrated care can be defined as “an approach that seeks to improve the quality of care for individual patients, service users and careers by ensuring that services are well coordinated around their needs”.
The aim is to publish rigorous empirical original research, reviews, research methodologies or theoretical works.
Editors Jeroen Hasselaar and Sheila Payne are seeking interdisciplinary contributions from across health and social care that will appeal to an international audience of clinicians, researchers, managers, educators and policy makers. Potential topics include conceptual and practical issues related to integrated care
Deadline for submissions is 30 March 2015.
More information at [email protected]
The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) and its partner organizations the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC), the Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) launched the petition in December 2012 on Avaaz org. The Prague Charter has been translated into 23 languages and been widely disseminated to national and international health and palliative care associations.
This survey asks about the use of advocacy in different organization and countries. Filling out the survey´s short questionnaire, which takes only about 5 - 10 minutes, will help to raise awareness, of the lack for access of palliative care across the world.
The survey closes on October 31st, 2014.
Click HERE to access to the survey
10-13 February 2015, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
The aim of the course is to educate participants on a range of ethical issues related to death and dying, suffering, palliative care and medically assisted death. Extensive insight into the medical, philosophical, theological and ethical foundations of these concepts will be proffered. During the course experts will give presentations on various topics in the domain of palliative care: autonomy and dependence; scientific research in palliative care; palliative sedation and euthanasia; death, suffering and palliative care; quality of life and a good death; spirituality and palliative care and cultural aspects of death and dying.
This course is of interest to participants from diverse professional backgrounds, such as nursing, medicine, health care administration, ethics, philosophy, theology and pastoral care, and PhD students undertaking courses of study in these areas.
Links for more information or registration.
The International Journal of Palliative Nursing Awards 2015, in collaboration with Macmillan Cancer Support, are now open for nominations! The awards celebrate achievement and excellence in the work of palliative care nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary palliative care team. The event will take place in a central London location on 26 February 2014, and will include the awards ceremony and a gala dinner.
Deadline to nominate is November 30. Instructions and nominating forms are available in the IJPN website
The U.S. healthcare system requires major changes to properly meet the needs of patients nearing the end of life and their families, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded Sept. 17. An IOM committee examined healthcare delivery, social services, and other support to individuals with serious illnesses or medical conditions, and detailed its findings in a report, “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life.” The IOM recommended more patient-centered care tailored to the individual, more end-of-life advance care planning, improved training and credentialing for clinicians, and new incentives from governments and businesses for patients and clinicians to discuss values, preferences, and appropriate services and care. Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life - Institute of Medicine.
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