“recent ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ report found that, in a global survey of multi-sector stakeholders across all 6 WHO regions LIC country respondents & LMIC respondents reported 8/10 people did not receive morphine or other strong opioids in times of medical need” bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

International consensus on occupational therapy interventions for people with palliative care needs: A European Association for Palliative Care Group Concept Mapping study. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/NFSR7AY…

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 at Bellingen for ALL members of the community who are interested in learning more about community supports and services available in relation to ageing, loss, dying and grief. 👇 Bookings: bit.ly/3UsOvlY

A new Lancet Editorial discusses the trial findings, our current understanding of the disease & the imperative to support patients now 🔽 hubs.li/Q02wMfdz0

"The heart is what keeps you alive. It’s about living. I think it’s lovely.” – Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner.  Locations where orange heart lapel pins can be purchased ➡️ ow.ly/4VFX50RB4sE #MattersOfLifeAndDeath 🧡

Palliative sedation is NOT assisted suicide - International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care hospicecare.com/what-we-do/pub… Also information on joining our next MOOC 'Dying Well' IOELC EAPC VZW Division of Health Research, Lancaster University Nancy Preston

Colonial legacies often resulted in the suppression of indigenous healing traditions and the imposition of Western medical paradigms. Ongoing efforts are underway to decolonize global health education by revising curricula to encompass diverse perspectives healthpolicy-watch.news/from-colonial-…

Disabled actor and activist Liz Carr has described her hopes that her BBC1 documentary about assisted suicide will finally explain the dangers of legalisation to a mainstream audience. buff.ly/3JVGsJs

Over the last couple years, posters like this have started popping up across Canada

Visit ehospicenews Africa edition for #PalliativeCare news from Africa & beyond. Follow link to read this story about a PC champion from Uganda & others; shorturl.at/7Z8sq Ministry of Health- Uganda Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) Rays of Hope Hospice Jinja Official Kitovu Mobile Ltd Palliative Care in Humanitarian Aid Situations HOSPAZ Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association WHO Uganda

Congratulations RPAH Renal Supportive Care Service with Dr Riona Pais and Natividad Miles. The results and impact just keep getting better. Renal Society of Australasia riona pais Maria C Cigolini So proud of you!

Preregister now for Module 5 IAHPC & International Neuropalliative Care Society members virtual course #PalliativeCare in “Parkinson’s disease and related disorder” Prof. Whitley Aamodt and Ms. Bernadette Skobjak. 7/11 7am PDT, 10am EDT, 2pm UTC, 4pm CEST. Preregister! 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/mujbnz3v

Cicely Saunders died on this day, 14th July, 2005, in St Christopher's, the hospice she had founded. We remember the ‘exacting joy’ of her life and all that she achieved for the relief of suffering. ‘A society which shuns the dying must have an incomplete philosophy’

This month’s report from the front. Essential Yet Scarce: Rational use of medical morphine for home hospice - International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care hospicecare.com/what-we-do/pub…

Essential Yet Scarce: rational use of medical #morphine for home #hospice: Pallinews on Katherine Pettus's personal experience, clinicians' agreement on morphine's efficacy, its use is supported by UN Human Rights Council. bit.ly/3YudPvl IAHPC UN Human Rights Council #palliativecare

🚨 New article alert🚨 Our systematic review led by Nidia Mantilla Manosalva on a overlooked topic: Pharmacological Treatment for Dialysis-Related Muscle Cramps. Another article from our research on the unmet palliative care needs associated with orphan symptoms.

We are busy planning our next congress EAPC2025 in Helsinki, 29 - 30 May 2025. Abstract submission will open during the summer 2024. All details will be posted on our website: eapccongress.eu/2025/

.Bishop Tim Harris wrote to the Health Minister last month to raise Australian Catholic Bishops Conference concerns palliative care patients are being let down because vital palliative care drugs like morphine oral liquid are being withdrawn from Australia without alternatives theaustralian.com.au/health/iv-cris… via The Australian

✍🏻 “As a group of past-presidents of the Association for Palliative Medicine, we urge MPs to consider carefully the unwanted consequences of the legislation on assisted dying as proposed by Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill.” (Letter within article) telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…