… contributes to preventable suffering and low-value care. In this article we outline the need
for a national palliative care strategy to ensure reliable access to high-quality palliative care for …

… the additional costs of implementing a national palliative care strategy (NPCS). … palliative
care. It also reviews published national strategies and frameworks to promote palliative care, …

… a PHS for integrating palliative care into a country's health care system. It included advice …
national palliative care programs and national cancer control programs where palliative care …

… Results: Fifty-five countries have a national strategy or plan for palliative care of … to palliative
care in national law, and 24 have some form of stand-alone national law on palliative care …

… In 1980, using this platform, the new chief of cancer at WHO reoriented cancer control
and developed a public health strategy for palliative care – a program to extend our great …

… of national dementia strategies with a focus on palliative care … frequently label these references
as “palliative care.” In view of … the last phase of life should be added to national strategies. …

… palliative care has been incorporated into the National … national policies in palliative care,
there is an enormous need to incorporate palliative care policies into national health strategies …

… In summary, the strategy acknowledges that there is a fundamental need to raise the
profile of palliative care amongst communities and health and disability providers. The report …

… National-level and service-level gaps in quality of care were … the national palliative care
guidelines and quality measures. We implemented voluntary self-assessment among health care …

… A draft strategic plan for palliative care has been written for England for 2000±2005. It
recommends decreased reliance on charitable funds to provide core specialist services and closer …