Palliative and Hospice Care

Help the Hospices
Help the Hospices is the national British charity for the hospice movement, founded in 1984 by Anne, Duchess of Norfolk. The role of the charity is two-fold. First, it supports hospices in their vital work on the frontline of caring for people who face the end of life and caring for those who love them. The support it gives takes many forms - training, education, information, grant-aid, advice and national fundraising events and activities. Secondly, it gives voice to the interests, views and concerns of over 200 local charities who provide the majority of hospice care across the UK. Help the Hospices investigates issues, publishes reports and briefings and advocate the cause of independent voluntary hospice care in Westminster, Whitehall and in the media.
UK forum for Hospice and Palliative Care Worldwide. Help the Hospices established the UK forum for hospice and palliative care worldwide in 2001. http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/international/index.asp
The UK forum is a network of individuals and organisations based in the UK who work together to support efforts to develop hospice and palliative care services around the world in resource-poor settings. Membership is also open to individuals and organisations around the world. The UK forum was established in 2001 and today links over 200 organisations and individuals. It communicates regularly with services worldwide through hospice information's Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Online and the Hospice Bulletin.

Hospice Information Service
Hospice Information, a joint venture between St Christopher's Hospice and Help the Hospices, is a UK and international resource on hospice and palliative care. We work closely with the UK forum for which we provide the 'information' remit http://www.palliative.info/
On this site you will find links to palliative web sites and locally developed guidelines for different conditions as well as different e-mail lists concerned with palliative care. For the interested patient or relative there is a special page with links everything of course in English and from an American point of view.

International Observatory of End of Life Care
International Observatory on End of Life Care. The Observatory has just started and is the work of Professor David Clark in Sheffield, UK. The first information presented is on Central and Eastern Europe. The observatory presents public health and policy data relating to hospice and palliative care services. The information is research-based and about hospice and palliative care provision in the international context. This is complemented by material drawn from the social and cultural analysis of end of life issues, including ethnographic, historical and ethical perspectives.

IAHPC International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
IAHPC is a not-for-profit membership-based organization dedicated to the development and the improvement of palliative care worldwide. The organization works with existing associations and agencies, as well as individuals, to improve communications and access to resources, as well as to foster opportunities in education and training.

Education for Physicians in End of Life Care

Growth House

ECEPT - Eastern and Central Europe Palliative Task Force

EAPC - European Association for Palliative Care

EAPC-East - European Association for Palliative Care Central and Eastern Europe Taskforce
EAPC East is part of the EAPC (European Association for Palliative Care) project to support the development of palliative care in Eastern Europe. As we all know the needs for developing palliative care in Eastern Europe are extensive. Palliative care is unevenly distributed and unevenly developed but there are many devoted and interested people working and doing an impressive job. Contacts with others in the same field, sharing experiences and learning from one another are ways to use this web site. The major aims of this EAPC project is to improve palliative care and coordinate activities in the Eastern European countries, and build a network of people and organisations interested in, as well as working with, palliative care in Eastern Europe

The International Palliative Care Resource Center
http://www.ipcrc.net/who-program-development.php

Council of Europe

WHO - International on cancer

Sue Ryder Organisation

Palliative Information - Edmonton

Palliative care Toolkit

IASP - International Association for the Study of Pain

WHO- World Health Organisation - Europe Hospice Education Institute

International Alliance of Patients' Organizations (IAPO). http://www.patientsorganizations.org/