The article focuses on British contribution to the development of palliative and hospice care
in Poland in the 1980s and beyond. It is based on archival research in the hospices in …

Poland is one of the largest countries in Central-Eastern Europe and, according to the recent
data from EAPC Atlas of Palliative Care in Europe, for many years it has held a leading role …

The article presents an overview of the state of Polish specialist hospice and palliative care
with a focus on the distribution of funding, types of provided care and organization of units …

The first hospice to open in Russia was at Lachta in the north-east outskirts of St Petersburg.
The moving spirits behind this initiative were the British journalist Victor Zorza and the …

Hospice/palliative care, as the World Health Organization has recognized, is the active, total
care of patients whose disease no longer responds to curative treatment, and for whom the …

More than 400 palliative and hospice centers, thousands of employees and volunteers
forming interdisciplinary teams caring for the terminally ill and their families, and many …

The first hospice in eastern Europe was the Hospicium in Krakow, which was created 10
years ago. Three years later the leading independent Polish hospice, Hospitium Pallotinum …

The hospice movement in Poland originated from the native tradition and spread to many
towns. There were 20 working hospices in Poland in 1989. Most of them came into existence …

Hospice-palliative care has existed in Hungary for more than 20 years but physicians know
very little about it. The objective of the study is to give detailed practical information about the …

A comprehensive analysis of today's situation of palliative care in Europe is provided,
including previously unidentified statistics and standardised profiles of 16 European …