I invite you to read Issue 2, Volume 18, 2024 of “Palliative Medicine in Practice”, which
contains three original articles, five reviews, and one case report. This Issue opens the …

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 …

Background: The available literature lacks studies using the KinesioTaping (KT) method and
the hold-relax (HR) technique in working with advanced cancer patients. Patients and …

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 …

Aim To assess the current status of palliative medicine (PM) education in medical students in
Poland. Methods Data on PM teaching were obtained from a 16–item questionnaire sent to …

Background There is an increasing demand for universal, high-quality access to palliative
care in Austria. To ensure this, the implementation of palliative care in the medical studies …

ObjectivePalliative care training at basic, intermediate, and specialist levels, recommended
by the World Health Organization (WHO), is challenging to access in resource-poor …

In Poland, hospice or palliative care faces many problemsarisingfromeconomicpoliticaldiffic…
in the larger society, as well as from inadequate education of both health care workers and …

Objectives In 2018, a study was conducted in the Eastern and South-eastern Europe and
Central Asia. National leaders of palliative care were asked to describe developments in …

Background and Objective: The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) published
recommendations for postgraduate education in palliative medicine in 2009. However, it is …