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EAPC news and views
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Dicember 2008 5th Research Forum in Trondheim: facts and figures.
An invitation to the EAPC 11th Congress in Vienna.
Ukraine makes major strides in palliative care.
Sept/October 2008 Obituary: Charles-Henri Rapin (1947–2008)
Remembering Charles-Henri.
August 2008 Caution – risk of learning! A report from Trondheim.
Well over 1,000 participants
A stimulating programme
Final notes

June 2008 Major initiatives from India’s national organisation for palliative care.
US policy evaluation resources for the practitioner.
Laval University in Québec to offer training course in pastoral healthcare.
WHO releases new publications.
Royal College of Physicians publishes report on access to palliative care in the UK.
Document provides advocacy toolkit for hospices and palliative care organisations.
April 2008 5th Research Forum of the EAPC puts emphasis on original material.
Christian mission set up team to spread palliative care education in Kenya.
US radio host devotes programmes to empowering patients and their families
February 2008 Access to pain relief – an essential human right.
Palliative care resources in Armenia.
A new guide on palliative care services for people living with advanced cancer.
Academic positions open at the School of Nursing, American University of Beirut.
Dicember 2007 Palliative care in Serbia: a personal perspective.
Belgrade’s first hospice.
A good deal of progress.
The 10th EAPC Congress: how the media reported it.
Standards of care for children.
Atlas of palliative care.
Sept/October 2007 Website launched to provide one-stop resource on breakthrough pain.
The 10th EAPC Congress in Budapest proves a success.
Moldovan hospice for cancer patients about to celebrate its sixth birthday.
Collaboration on research into family carers moves a step forward.
Is the increasing number of opioid analgesic deaths due to pain management?
August 2007 The Hospice on Mount Scopus.
Twinning links between hospice and palliative care.
Atlas of palliative care.
June 2007 The Missyou website
Improving quality of life: Bach flower remedies in hospices
The EPCRC
April 2007 Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for the 15th World Day of the Sick
Palliative care in the 7th Framework
Travelling grants for delegates from Central and Eastern Europe
Subspecialty in palliative medicine
10th EAPC Congress, Budapest, Hungary, 7–9 June 2007
February 2007 Palliative care research in Latin America
Morphine booklet in Latvian
The interdisciplinary preventive intervention
Dicember 2006 Palliative care in Tajikistan
Helping people at the end of their lives
Sept/October 2006

Evaluation of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2005.
The WHO analgesic laddres turns 20.
Free membership to the AAHPM for physicians from countries on the HINARI list.

The first palliative care unit in Lebanon.
Reconnecting to the Magic of Life Joyce Mills.

August 2006 Report of the President of the EAPC 2006
Welcome to Trondheim

EAPC news (E)13.4.pdf

June 2006

New on the web: the EAPC discussion forum.
Establishing a national cancer control programme in Hungary.
Outpatient palliative care activities in Latvia.
UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on ‘Dying Well’ launched.
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day – 7 October 2006.

April 2006 Bridging the gap.
Neurology and palliative care.
Collaboration between the EAPC and the ESMO.
McGill University, Faculty of Medicine
February 2006 The 3rd EAPC Research Forum – an update of a worldwide congress
Life directives or living wills
Evaluation of the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
WHPCD – the Belarus experience
What is The Bereavement Register?
Dicember 2005 The 58th World Health Assembly resolution on global cancer control
Paediatric palliative care
Recording memories in palliative care
A subjective history of palliative care
Sept/October 2005 Tributes to Dame Cicely Saunders
Annual general meeting of the EAPC
Social workers meeting at the EAPC Congress, Aachen
Connecting diversity – 10th EAPC Congress in Budapest
August 2005

Farewell to Dame Cicely Saunders
View of the future of the outgoing President Stein Kaasa
Welcome of the new President Marilene Filbet
The University Network of the Transmanche

June 2005 Report of the President Stein Kaasa
EAPC projects
April 2005 4th EAPC Research Forum
- Collaboration in palliative care research: the potential of diversity
- The Italian League for Combating Cancer in Milan
- Keeping up to date with the latest news
February 2005

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2005
- What are the aims of WHPCD?
- Raising awareness
- How will the success of WHPCD be measured?
- What activities are planned?
National Congress of Palliative Care

December 2004 EAPC task force on the development of palliative care in Europe: autumn 2004
- Members of the task force
- Participating institutions
- Goals of the task force
- Work method
- Funding for the task force
- Upcoming plans
- Final results
Sept/October 2004

The Council of Europe recommendations on palliative care
- The project for dissemination

- New centre at Munich
- University Hospital
- ANOIS – The Hospice Garden Projec

July/August 2004

Report on the 3rd EAPC Research Forum
- The scientific programme
- CME accreditation
- Participation
- Follow up and thanks

June 2004

Overview of current EAPC Task forces
- Task force on pediatric palliative care
- Task force on palliative care development in Europe
- Task force on palliative care standards
- Task force on medical education
- Collaboration with Eurag - European Federation of older people


EAPC news (E)11.3.pdf

April 2004

Remembering Frances
Overview of current EAPC Task forces
- Ethics task force on palliative care and euthanasia
- EAPC translation policy for the Ethics task force on palliative care and euthanasia
- Task force on nursing education


EAPC news (E)11.2.pdf

February 2004

ALS / motor neurone disease (MND) Award
EAPC Task force News
- Survey on University Education for Physicians


EAPC news (E)11.1.pdf

December 2003

EAPC Task force News
- Survey on the development of palliative care in Europe
- Palliative Care for Children in Europe

- Recommendations for Nursing Education- Translations of - Ethics/PAS position paper

Exchanges and collaboration with other organisations
Internal rules for EAPC Endorsement


EAPC news (E)10.6.pdf

Sept/October 2003

EAPC Research Network news
- Fatigue in palliative care patients
- Prognostic factors in advanced cancer patients
News from EAPC East
The African Palliative Care Association
School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut


EAPC news (E)10.5.pdf

July/August 2003

EAPC Research Network report for the General Assembly 2003


EAPC news (E)10.4.pdf

May/June 2003

EAPC Presidents report presented at the General Assembly 2003


EAPC news (E)10.3.pdf

March/April 2003

Palliatif the contact letter for all French-speaking associations
The Hospice Information Service
Palliative Medicine Unit opens in Western Norway
IAPC Irl news: New literature - National Development Committee for Palliative Care


EAPC news (E)10.2.pdf

January/February 2003

EAPC General Assembly
The 2003 EAPC Congress
3rd Forum on Research in Palliative CAre
EAPC East
Volunteer movement in Europe an update
Hellenic Society of Palliative and Symptomatic Care of Cancer and Non Cancer patients
The Population-based Palliative Care Research Network, USA


EAPC news (E)10.1.pdf



 

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