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President's
message 2004
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message 2003
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Dear
Palliative Care Friends,
A short notice from me sitting and reading the recently
released document on palliative care from Council of
Europe, Committee of Ministers. “Recommendation
REC (2003) 24 of the Committee of Ministers to member
states on the organisation of Palliative Care”.
You can read more information and download the paper
from the members
only section of our Website
I
will strongly recommend you to read this document. A
document like this may give us an opportunity to put
palliative care on the national agenda, a recommendation
like this without any national initiative will stay
in the drawer of the bureaucrats. Soon, EAPC will also
come with an initiative on how we possibly can join
forces to raise the public and the professional awareness
of palliative care by promoting this document. |
Another interesting document was recently received by
UICC and WHO “Global action against cancer”
(download
from WHO website in pdf). We have been in discussions
with WHO and UICC about the document by pointing out
the importance of even more clearly focus on palliative
care in any global action against cancer. As you see
on page 2 the directed general of WHO, Gro Harlem Brundtland
addresses palliative care in her statement: “Pain
relief and palliative care can improve the quality of
life of cancer patients and families”.
We are in the process of finalising the program for
the Research Forum of Stresa in 2004 with Franco De
Conno as the chair of the Scientific Committee. The
interest to present new research is overwhelming, we
have received more than 300 hundred abstracts from colleagues
all over the world. The abstracts have been evaluated
by two independent evaluators per abstract, and selected
for oral or poster by the scientific committee. The
result of this process has been the basis for establishing
the final program, which will be online by Februray
this year.
Finally, let us know if you have any comments on what
I have addressed, plans for the future or on how you
would like to see EAPC address important palliative
care issues in the future.
With kind regards,
Stein Kaasa
President EAPC
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