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The EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe
Aims:
This Task Force aims to explore, assess and comprehensively summarize the current state of the development of palliative care in the European region.
Objectives:
1. To provide reliable information on the delivery of hospice and palliative care in Europe in a manner relevant to the EAPC; to intergovernmental organisations and to national and regional governments
2. To explore the current organisation of hospice and palliative care in Europe considering political and social issues; healthcare policies, and the availability of palliative care resources countrywide
3. To facilitate access to information and communication between hospice and palliative care associations and societies that operate across Europe
4. To aid the identification of key persons who have studied the development of hospice and palliative care in their own settings and who may provide country specific data to assist policy makers, planners and professional associations
Outcomes
Our ultimate goals are to produce
a) a country by country report for the 52 participating countries. Each country report will comprise a summary of the literature in palliative care available in the country, bibliographic information, comments from the “boards” of national associations (or equivalent palliative care organizations), or from the “expert informants” from those countries in which national palliative care associations (or equivalent organizations) do not exist, and a summary of the data collected by the country’s ‘key collaborator’
b) a comprehensive analysis of the development of palliative care in the European region
c) an atlas of palliative care developments in the European region
We also hope that all participating “key collaborators”, “boards” and “expert informants” will remain as possible “contacts for information” about palliative care in their countries in future researches on the nationwide span of the discipline.
We plan to disseminate the final results in several ways, including publications in palliative care journals; conferences proceedings; presentations and web-sites. The participating organizations as well as “boards”, “expert informants” and “key collaborators” in each studied country will be acknowledged as contributors to the project in any future written or on-line publication.
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