WELCOME
Dear colleagues in palliative care,
On behalf of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) and the Hungarian Hospice–Palliative Association, we welcome you to the 10th Congress of the EAPC. It has been an ambition for many years to host an EAPC congress in a Central or Eastern European country. We are therefore delighted to welcome you to Budapest! Congress delegates from all parts of the world will have an opportunity to meet and share their knowledge and experience of palliative care. The congress programme reflects the challenging and fascinating diversities of palliative care. We will find out about delegates’ personal experiences, their clinical practice and research, and their research methodology. All this will provide us with opportunities to learn from each other, discuss each others’ work and take some inspiration back home for the benefit of our patients.
An important aspect of palliative care that will also form an essential part of the congress programme is the subject of policy and organisation. The ‘Budapest commitment’ is a tool to support palliative care development in each country through relevant goals defined by national associations. The Budapest commitment is an EAPC initiative, together with the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) and the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA).
The congress will be a wonderful opportunity to meet people, make new friends, learn from new perspectives and share what you know about caring for people at the end of their life.
On behalf of EAPC we warmly invite you all to join the EAPC 2007 Congress in Budapest!
Carl Johan Fürst Chair Scientific Committee |
Katalin Hegedűs Chair Organising Committee |
