|
Latest news and messages for members
EAPC Members News March 2003
view EAPC Members News of November 2002
view EAPC Members News of December 2002
|
To download PDF files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download free at:
|
|
General Assembly April 2003, The Hague, Netherlands 8th EAPC Congress and the Elections of the EAPC Board of Directors 2003-2007
The exact dates, and place of the next GA are now online at General Assemblies (GB).
The convocation has been sent by surface mail to all members together with a voting Card and the list of Candidates. Members are invited to renewed their fee for 2003 in order to participate at the General Assembly.
All candidates are now presented with their mission statement, a photo and a short CV online. Please have a look.
Go to the GA page to ownload financial report 2002 and Budget 2003 to be presented at the General Assembly
Membership Renewal 2003
Membership fees 2003 will be the same as previous two years 40 Euro.
The online registration and secure online payment by credit card is being delayed due to technical problems. We have sent forms for renewal by surface mail.
go to members only page to check, correct and print your data and renew ONLINE
click here to verify all the advantages of individual EAPC membership
Palliative Medicine, the " Research Journal" of the EAPC
The online registration for the bulksubscription list to Palliative Medicine will be available from Ap2il 2003 on. Please go to members only page to check your data and renew . This initiative will offer an exceptional yearly subscription fee of Euro 135 for the launch of Palliative Medicine as the official research Journal of the EAPC, and will be available for 3 months.
Besides the bulk subscription, our members have a further advantage of having Palliative Medicine as our Research Journal. The editor will select of each issue one article, which will be available in our "Members only" secion in PDF format.
The first article selected is: 'Which depression screening tools should be used in palliative care' (Lloyd-Williams, Spiller and Ward) Palliative Medicine 2003, 17 40-43.
Click here to download  
The Second article selected is the paper of the Euthanasia task force.
Click here to download
| This document can be downloaded as pdf files for personal academic use. Anyone wishing to use it for commercial purposes or needing to make multiple copies must contact the publisher - Hodder Arnold, 338 Euston Road, NW1 3BH London, UK, Email: |
EJPC, The Journal of the EAPC
The EAPC Board has agreed with our Publisher Hayward Medical to make the comment of each issue available as a pdf file here in our "Members only" area.
Please find here the first two comments.
Click here to download comment issue 10.1
Click here to download comment issue 10.2
The paper of the Euthanasia task force was contemporaneously also published in the EJPC in English and French.
Click here to download the paper Euthanasia task force
| This document can be downloaded as pdf files for personal academic use. Anyone wishing to use it for commercial purposes or needing to make multiple copies must contact the publisher Hayward Medical |
Taskforce on Nurse Education
A task force of Palliative Nursing Experts has been convened to consider recommendations for the development of palliative nurse education in Europe. The members of the core group are :Martine DE VLIEGER (Belgium), Nuria GORCHS (Spain), Philip J. LARKIN (Ireland) and Françoise PORCHET (Switzerland).
This group has prepared a draft for recommendations and circulated it together with a questionnaire to 10 experts in the field of about 10 different European countries for their comments, views and suggestions for modification.
The report will be presented to the EAPC Board and at The Hague Congress for discussion and final comments, in April 2003.
Time frame: First draft report finalised: early February 2003, Consultation process: February / March 2003, Presentation of the report to the EAPC Board: end of March 2003 Presentation of the report at the Congress of The Hague Congress, April 2003. Elaboration of final document by end of April.
For further details, contact : Philip J. LARKIN at
Taskforce on Education for Physicians
The EAPC Board considers the Education about palliative medicine at University of utmost importance for the future of palliative care, and decided to carry out a survey on the state of the art of education for physicians in Europe. We would greatly appreciate if you would complete (also by computer) and return this brief questionnaire to Marilène FILBET at ().
Click here to download
If you know other people involved in this field could you please forward this questionnaire or send us their contact details
For any further questions please contact: Marilène FILBET at ().
Taskforce on National Palliative Care Standards for organisation, services and delivery
The ideal development of palliative care is the provision of high quality, easy accessible care at the end of life for all European citizens who need it. Palliative care should be available at the patients choice in any health care institution, special palliative care units, and hospices or in the patients home. To guarantee a good quality of present palliative care, to support future development and to strengthen palliative care provision on a European level there is a great need for development of consensus standards.
The task force intends to provide common standards for different levels of palliative care. It will be part of the project to define the relevant levels. The standards should be relevant for implementation in units for end of life care, e.g. a hospice, a home care service or a palliative care unit at a hospital. Standards should also be applicable to other services with ambitions to provide palliative care.
An application for funding of taskforces has been made to possible sponsors. EAPC is still awaiting reply.
In the Meantime Please help us to prepare the work. If you know about national standards, please contact: Carl Johan Furst or Sylvia Sauter at EAPCEast, mailto: .
Taskforce on Palliative Care for Elderly
This task force has as overall aim to improve the PC in elderly . A first proposal of pain frequency study in nursing homes will be discussed. The core group would be happy for people interested in palliative care and elderly to join: physicians nurses and other professionals and calls for a meeting at the 8th Congress of the EAPC, The HAGUE, Congress Centre, 1 April from 2pm to 5PM Room BREUGHEL 4.
For more information and the agenda pease contact: Marilène FILBET at ().
Council of Europe
Since the EAPC has obtained its recoginition as NGO of the Council of Europe. Maurice CHAUSSON ( Director of the Association Pierre Clément based in Strasbourg , and Member of the Board of the Societé Française de Soins Palliatifs SFAP) is representing EAPC at the Council of Europe.
During the last Board Meeting of the EAPC in Les Saisies (France) , last 28-20th of January Lucie Hacpille has accepted to support Maurice CHAUSSON in order to facilitate the communication between EAPC and the Council of Europe.
Since September 1999 no special report has been published by the Council of Europe in the Health issues. It seems that those last three years have been focused on the management of a new status for the NGO . From 1995 to 2002 , non governmental organisations had been granted by the Council of Europe consultative status . But actually , non governmental organisation have been granted participating status .
HEALTH GROUP MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Maurice Chausson represented EAPC with his participation in the Health group meetings of the Council of Europe. In this group the main issues proposed since 1999 for the future were the following ones:
- Palliative care and GPs. Palliative care and independent nurses Which means of dissemination ? Which training programmes . Is it possible to find examples of achievements ( even limited) in Europe that can be reproduced ?
- Palliative care and society What is the involvement of the citizens ? The importance of the voluntary work in the future .
From the EAPC East Centre
Council of Europe - Recommendations on Palliative Care
The EAPC-east has been invited to be part of an expert committee to develop European recommendations on palliative care. This committee was chaired by Dr Tony O´Brien.
Carl Johan Fürst attended one meeting and Sylvia Sauter attended 3 meetings. In one meeting the EAPC-east project was presented to the group of experts. Contributions to the final text documents have been made.
The final document is presently in a political process of amendment and is expected to be approved in the summer of 2003. There is a suggestion put forward to host the final and approved recommendations on the EAPC-east and on the EAPC web site.
General Web Update Info
see information about many updated pages in the homepage
see latest news from italian collective members SICP and FCO and
a course on Palliative Care for Children to be held in Poland
|
issue 10.1
