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Revised recommendations on standards and norms for palliative care in Europe from the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC): A Delphi study

In the 12 years since the publication of the original EAPC recommendations on standards and norms, palliative care has expanded and increased its reach in many countries of Europe, resulting in the need for an updated and revised edition.
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Individual Membership
Individual members are invited to join the EAPC or renew their membership here.
Associate Membership
All current members of our National Associations are invited to join the EAPC or renew their membership for free here.
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Membership benefits include:
- Networking with 60 National Associations and individual members from countries Worldwide
- Up to 25% discount on EAPC Congress registration
- Weekly updates on latest topical issues for best practice in palliative care
- Discounts on a range of subscriptions to our two official journals, Palliative Medicine and Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Advertise palliative care events and career opportunities to an international audience
- Access to member only content – journal articles, white papers, recorded webinars etc.
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EAPC are delighted to support our member organisations to advertise job and career opportunities free of charge. Advertisements are limited to positions that are open to an international audience, e.g. consultant or academic posts.
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EAPC Newsletter
Launched in 2012, the EAPC blog provides a platform for different views and personal perspectives on palliative and hospice care in Europe and beyond – from moving stories to improved care. The blog is aimed at EAPC individual and associate members, and anyone involved, or interested, in palliative and hospice care worldwide. View all our blog posts here
EAPC Blog
- Comics in Palliative Care: helpful or too confrontational?
- Integrated Palliative Rehabilitation: ‘The problem is still the word palliative’- Palliative Medicine’s Paper of the Year Award.
- EAPC World Congress 2023 – submit your abstracts now!
- Palliative Care and household poverty reduction: an interview with #EAPC2022 award winner Dr Jane Bates.
- The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: understanding a realistic utopia.
- Palliating myself through the COVID -19 pandemic.
- Palliative care for children and young people matters! Working together towards improving palliative care in Europe.
- ‘Trapped in a double cage’: How patients’ partners experienced the diagnosis of advanced cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Let’s create Compassionate Communities for the future!
- Economics, Wikipedia and cricket…an interview with #EAPC2022 award winner Dr Peter May.