2015; Volume 16, No 10, October

Announcements

Each month, we publish a limited selection of items that we feel will be of interest to our global readership. Content is welcomed but please observe the criteria for inclusion:

Please also consider promoting your education and training events in the IAHPC Global Directory of Education in Palliative Care. It’s quick and easy – just submit your content online.

IAHPC Members’ Recognition Month
Win an IAHPC Traveling Scholarship or Fellowship!

IAHPC benefits every day from the hard work of our members who are devoted to the advancement of hospice and palliative care worldwide. Members exemplify a continuing commitment to patient care, improved education and favorable policies, consistent with our mission.

October is our Members’ Recognition Month when we highlight the vital function that our members play in the advancement of our mission and formally acknowledge their support.

IAHPC will be giving a prize in the following two categories:

1. Recognizing Loyalty:

Goal: to maintain the loyalty of members by giving a prize among those individual and institution(s) who keep their memberships active over the years.

Conditions: The prize will be an IAHPC Traveling Scholarship or Traveling Fellowship of $2,000. The winner will be assigned through a raffle among the members that meet the eligibility criteria.

Eligibility: Open to current IAHPC members (individuals and institutions) who have kept their membership active for at least two consecutive years by October 31, 2015. Institutions may be represented by a single designated individual.

2. Increasing Membership:

Goal: to increase the number of members by giving a prize to the current member who brings the highest number of new or renewed members.

Conditions: The prize will be an IAHPC Traveling Scholarship or Traveling Fellowship of $2,000. The current member who brings the highest number of new or renewed members until October 31, 2015 will be the winner.

Eligibility: Open to current IAHPC members (individuals and institutions) in all countries of the world. Institutions may be represented by a single designated individual. Only registered participants will be eligible to participate.

Note: IAHPC staff members, relatives and directors are not eligible to participate.

Winners will be announced the week of November 23rd, 2015.

Some of the IAHPC’s Membership Benefits to tell your friends and colleagues about include:

Unlimited access / downloads of full text articles from leading palliative care journals online including:

Unlimited access / downloads of palliative care tools and resources, such as the Palliative Care Reference Cards from the Institute of Palliative Medicine.

Support & participate in IAHPC’s global aims:

Eligibility for a travel grant to learn or teach

Remember to renew your membership, if you haven’t already, and be eligible to participate!!

Invitation to take part in a Delphi survey

Dear readers,

If you are a palliative care clinician (medical or nursing), with over five years experience in a current advanced clinical role working with people with a haematological malignancy, you are invited you to join a panel of experts to participate in a Delphi survey.

The overall aim of this study is to identify people who may benefit from an assessment of palliative care needs and proactive planning alongside appropriate treatment of their underlying illness.

The objectives of this study are to:

If you are interested, please email Elise Button for more information:

Elise Button, A/Nurse Researcher, Cancer Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
Doctoral Student, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

2015 State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care –
Improvement, but persistent gaps in access for the seriously ill remain

America's Care of Serious Illness: 2015 State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nation's Hospitals was released on 1 October 2015 on Capitol Hill. The report demonstrates that access to palliative care [in the US] remains highly variable and depends more upon accidents of geography and hospital ownership than it does upon the needs of patients with serious illness and their families. The report was conducted by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC).

Key findings:

Overall, the southern U.S states received a grade of C as compared to As and Bs for all
other regions
Only 23% of for-profit hospitals have palliative care
17 states received a grade of A (up from 3 in the 2008 report and 7 in the 2011 report)
90% hospitals with 300 beds or more have palliative care teams
90% of hospitals operated by the Catholic Church have palliative care
96% of teaching hospitals now have palliative care teams, increasing likelihood that next
generation of clinicians will receive training.

Read the full report here.
Read the press release here.

Come to the ‘Capital of the North’: PRC / EAPC RN seminar, Leeds, UK, 15-16 October 2015

For two days researchers will meet in the ‘northern capital’ of the UK and get updates on topics such as symptom management, complex interventions and treatment guidelines. Dr. Florian Strasser, Switzerland, will give the GW Hanks lecture on ‘Integrated symptom assessment and management’.

In addition to these themes, nine abstracts have been chosen for oral presentation, widening the scope of the seminar. The seminars have become a popular arena for younger researchers to present their findings, and for seniors to give their valuable input and guidance. This year, we will have presentations on several aspects of symptom assessment and management, new results from drug trials and perspectives on symptoms besides pain and cachexia.

Does research lead to clinical change?
The seminar addresses the question «How can research inform clinical practice in palliative care?» Hopefully two days in Leeds will bring new insights to this approach, and perhaps also some new ideas?

Download the final programme and register now.

2015 International Palliative Care Network Conference

Palliative Care Network is proud to announce that the 2015 International Palliative Care Network Conference, under the auspices of the European Association for Palliative Care, is now LIVE.

Charles F. von Gunten, MD PhD, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Hospice and Palliative Medicine for OhioHealth Kobacker House, Ohio, USA, addresses the conference in his Keynote Speech on 'Generalist and Specialist Palliative Care'.

The Master Lectures focus on the 'Delivery of Palliative Care across the Spectrum of Available Resources'. Over 20 lectures are available open-access for immediate download.

The 2015 Conference is supported in part by the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care. Palliative Care Network thanks IAHPC for their continued support.

Visit our website to view the lectures.

Advanced European Bioethics Course ‘Suffering, Death and Palliative Care’, 16-19 February 2016, Nijmegen, Netherlands

The course is organized by the Section of Healthcare Ethics, IQ Healthcare, (Radboudumc university medical centre). Presentations include: palliative care; palliative sedation and euthanasia; death, suffering and palliative care; quality of life and a good death; spirituality and palliative care and cultural aspects of death and dying.

Keynote lecture: Prof. Richard Harding, Reader in Palliative Care, Director of Global Programmes and Partnerships, King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation.

Of interest to participants from nursing, medicine, healthcare administration, ethics, philosophy, theology and pastoral care, and PhD students undertaking courses of study in these areas. Course language: English.

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