Palliative care
highlighted at the WONCA, Special Interest Group in Brazil, November 2016
This pre-conference WONCA SIG
attracted a large group, including many Brazilians eager to hear about
palliative care in the community internationally.
Prof Geoff Mitchell first welcomed
everyone and explained the vision of the SIG and of the International Primary
Palliative Care Network which had members in every continent. www.ippcn.org
Prof Scott Murray then highlighted
the recent WHO manual on integrating palliative care in all settings,
especially the community. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/250584/1/9789241565417-eng.pdf He had
contributed to this very useful manual which spells out how palliative care can
be integrated in primary care in various high, middle and low income countries.
Then Dr Santiago Correa illustrated
how his project in Brazil works so that others could learn from it. See link to EAPC blog. https://eapcnet.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/project-estar-ao-seu-lado-living-with-total-pain-in-brazil/
This was received very enthusiastically.
The new President of WONCA, Professor Amanda Howe, visited the special
interest group and encouraged us to continue over the next few years in this
priority area for primary care.
During the WONCA conference
itself we held a “basics of palliative care” session for GPs which lasted 3
hours. Daniel Azevedo and Claudia Buria,
both from Brazil, presented in a very dynamic fashion key issues about
identifying and helping people with frailty and dementia. Geoff Mitchell then gave a clear basic talk
on symptom control. Again there was much
enthusiasm around this. Slides will be available on www.ippcn.org
see picture attached.
On the last day of WONCA Brazil there
was a special panel on palliative care when we heard presentations from Geoff
Mitchell (summarising palliative care in Latin America using a presentation
from Dr Liliana deLima (USA), Maria Goretti Sales (Brazil), Thomas Martin
(Costa Rica), and Santiago Correa (Brazil) In closing, Scott Murray (UK) who showed a 4 minute video
giving a 4 dimensional rationale for early palliative care which was well
received, and which soon should be available as a teaching aid for students and
postgraduate teaching for nurses, doctors and allied health professionals.
There will be great opportunities
for further palliative care input at WONCA in Seoul in 2 years’ time and in
regional conferences before then. Meanwhile
the SIG and International palliative Care Network are going ahead to help
different countries to integrate palliative care in primary care, using the
Toolkit developed by the EAPC Taskforce
and WONCA in 2016. See http://www.eapcnet.eu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=QDeFwspXKhA%3d
Scott Murray,
Co-chair of WONCA cancer and
Palliative Care SIG
2015
Meeting at the EAPC World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark
The 2015 meeting of IPPCN was held at the EAPC World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. IPPCN was hard at work as evidenced by this photo:
Professor Scott Murray presented on how EAPC Primary Palliative Care Toolkit could be used to develop community-based palliative care in Europe. Click here for a copy of the presentation.
2014
IPPCN Annual meeting
NAPCRG Annual research meeting 23 November 2014, New York USA
Twenty people attended the 2014 meeting of IPPCN, held in conjunction with the Annual
meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Network.
The meeting commenced with a
summary of the previous year’s activities. Several very
important milestones and initiatives were achieved in the previous year, which included:
four new members of the IPPCN executive; Primary palliative care being mentioned by name
in the WHO resolution declaring palliative care to be a core target of health systems of every
member nation; Prof Xavier Gomez Batisite being appointed to map out an implementation
strategy for the WHO palliative care resolution; the release of a report outlining the
relationship between primary care and palliative care in 29 European countries; translation
of the GP toolkit, used to assess primary care involvement in palliative care, into French,
The meeting heard a series of presentations which represented the major challenges to the
provision of primary palliative care, namely identifying patients at risk of dying, care
planning at the interface, interdisciplinary palliative care, and measuring outcomes in
Professor Scott Murray (Scotland)
Elizabeth Pitout (South Africa)
Professor Geoff Mitchell (Australia)
Assoc Professor David Nowels (USA)
Each of these presentations generated excellent discussions, and the full 3 ½ hours was
IPPCN members presented posters and oral presentations in the main meeting included
Geoff Mitchell, Fred Burge, Scott Murray, David Nowels, Bev Lawson, Bert Leysen Bart van
den Eynden, Cees Ruij, Dori Secceraccia, and Michele Aubin.
The next meeting of IPPCN will be held in conjunction with the Primary Care Cancer group
meeting (Ca-PRI) in Aarhus, Denmark, on 20-22 May 2016.
2013
Prague dual meetings a success
For the first time we held our annual meetings across two conferences. Both the European Association of Palliative Care and the world WONCA meetings were in Prague, less than a month apart. To make the most of this unprecedented opportunity, we elected to run events at both meetings. Over one hundred people attended one of our meetings, with the focus of the meetings being similar but different.
One of the initiatives of the last couple of years has been to align the IPPCN with these two groups, and establish working groups or interest groups in both. This year was the opportunity to demonstrate a vibrant primary palliative care presence through these working groups.
To view a full report of both meetings, click
here.
EAPC Primary Palliative Care Taskforce
This task group, under Scott Murray and Adam Firth, have developed a Primary Palliative Care Stocktake and Toolkit. The stocktake docimented information from a range of countries in Europe, demonstrating a diversity of both primary care and palliative care models of delivery. The Toolkit is based on a population health approach to service development in palliative care. Using this framework it offers a range of resources to assist those who wish to facilitate the development of primary palliative care in their setting.
The meetings gave an opportunity to participants to review work to date, and provide input into the definitive version of this toolkit.
While the work has been done with a European focus in mind, this work has obvious implications for the WONCA Cancer and Palliative care interest group as well, and is being written so that it has world wide applicability.
To view the presentation around the Toolkit, click
here.
To go to the EAPC Primary Palliative Care Taskforce, click
here.WONCA World primary care meeting
The Cancer and Palliative Care working group sponsored a pre-conference workshop. The time was shared between cancer and palliative care.
Our colleagugues from the Primary Care Cancer Research group (Ca-PRI), David Weller and Annette Berendsen, presented an overview of the issues related to cancer survivorship and primary care. To view these presentations, click
here (David Weller) and
here (Annette Berendsen).
Individual member presentations
Several members gave presentations highlighting outstanding work going on in locations worldwide. Click on the relevant links to view these presentations:
2012
The seventh Annual meeting of IPPCRG was held in conjunction with the 19th International Congress of Palliative care, held in Montreal in October 2012. The meeting itself was held at the Montreal General Hospital.
