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Hospice/Palliative Care unit - IAHPC Institutional Lifetime member
Hospice/Palliative Care unit - IAHPC Institutional Member

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Europe

• Compassionate Brugge Belgium, Brugge
  Loss , death, grief, mourning, situations of serious illness and long-term (informal) care are part of daily life in our city, neighborhood and community. With Compassionate Brugge we connect people of Bruges and join forces across policy areas and sectors so that no one has to be alone with their loss experience. By strengthening Bruges residents, social partners, companies, schools and organizations in how we deal with these experiences, Bruges will become even more of a solidarity and caring city.
• End-of-Life Care Research Group Belgium, Brussels
  The End-of-Life Care Research Group conducts high-quality scientific research in end-of-life care in Belgium and across Europe. Researchers from different scientific backgrounds work in a common research structure to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative research. The research group also aims to achieve maximum dissemination of its research findings through scientific publications, conferences, professional organizations and the popular media. This means our research leads to the improvement of medical training and education, of end-of-life care practice and organization, and of political and institutional policy.
• European Research Institute for Chaplains in Health Care Belgium, Leuven
  ERICH was founded to promote research by chaplains into chaplaincy practice and in doing so to encourage reflection on its theoretical underpinning. ERICH seeks to support such research through education and mentoring with the aim of enhancing spiritual care for patients, their loved ones and health care staff.
• Federation Palliative Care Flanders- VZW Belgium, Vilvoorde
  The Federation of Palliative Care Flanders acts as a representative organization for all stakeholders in palliative care in Flanders. As a Federation, it promotes quality care for every citizen, together with the palliative care networks. The Federation is a pluralistic organization that recognizes and values ​​differences in beliefs as a wealth and enrichment. She tries to realize her mission and vision transparently, loyal to her objectives and stakeholders. To realize this mission, the Federation works on the basis of five policy lines: It acts as a knowledge and expertise center for palliative care that brings together innovative knowledge and expertise (also internationally) and makes it available to partners and to society in a broad sense in an accessible manner. These partners can be: palliative care networks, governments, care and educational institutions and care providers. The Federation creates broad social support for palliative care by informing and communicating with the population. She is a partner in the continuous development of care providers, active in palliative care through education, training and education. It conducts a policy towards the government and the professional field that is aimed at the further embedding and financing of palliative care in the various care settings and education. It organizes mutual consultations with the relevant actors in palliative care through structured consultation groups with the aim of further developing the Federation through mutual flow of information and in this way improving palliative care in Flanders.
• The Brussels Pluralist Federation for Palliative and Continuing Care Belgium, Brussel
  The Brussels Pluralist Federation for Palliative and Continuing Care unites and represents the organisations active in the sector of palliative and continuing care in the Brussels-Capital Region. Founded in 1997, it is the special representative of and voice for palliative care in Brussels with the local, regional, federal and international authorities. Its objective is to promote the development of palliative care in Belgium and to improve its qualitative level, in partnership with the Flemish and Walloon palliative care federations.
• The Walloon Federation of Palliative Care (FWSP) Belgium, Namur
  The Walloon Federation of Palliative Care (FWSP) is an association created in 1995 . Its main specificity comes from the fact that it puts its expertise at the disposal of professionals in the field and supports them. In 20 years, the FWSP has become the privileged interlocutor of health professionals and their spokesperson with regional and federal political authorities. With a growing dynamism, it organizes working groups (also called commissions) that allow palliative care stakeholders to reflect, to consult, to discuss their practice ... to work together in the service of palliative care. It also coordinates projects carried out all over the Walloon territory in order to facilitate to all, carers or non-carers, access to a similar offer in certain areas related to palliative care (communication tools, training courses, regional symposium ...).

Regional Association/Organizations

• European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Belgium, Vilvoorde
  The EAPC, established in 1988, is a membership organisation that aims to advance, influence, promote and develop palliative care in Europe. The EAPC is recognised by the Council of Europe, has links with the World Health Organisation and is involved in several European Union Funded research projects on palliative care. Since its inception, the EAPC has evolved into the leading palliative care organisation in Europe providing a forum for all of those either working, or with an interest in, palliative care throughout Europe and beyond. EAPC Members are engaged in palliative care from a range of perspectives; specialist clinical practice, education, policy and research. The EAPC is respectful of the cultural and political diversities of our members across Europe but aims to ensure that as collective group that we speak with ‘one voice-one vision’ on matters important for the practice and development of palliative care.

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