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National palliative care plans/strategies

Click on the links below to access national palliative care plans and strategies, National cancer control  plans, national standards country visit reports, laws and other palliative care related national materials. Countries are listed alphabetically.

If your country has a palliative care plan or strategy and it's not listed below, please let us know by sending an email to info@thewpca.org.

Treat the Pain has produced two-page reports describing the need for pain relief and statistics on recent consumption of medications for pain relief by country. Click here to see the country reports.

Albania

Palliative care needs assessment (draft) 

The National Cancer Control Programme 2011 - 2020

Algeria

National cancer prevention and control plan 2010-2019

Argentina

National palliative care strategy

Armenia

Palliative care needs assessment

TB guidelines 2011

Australia

Australian national stragetic plan

Australia NCCP audit, palliative care

Australian standards for palliative care

Standards for providing quality palliative care for all Australians (2005)

Austria

Hospice Austria standards and guidelines

Azerbaijan

Guideline on organisation of palliative care in Azerbaijan

OSI Azerbaijan country visit report  2011

Canada

Cancer Care Ontario palliative care strategy

Quebec standards of practice for paediatric palliative care

Costa Rica

Palliative care in National Cancer Control Programme

Czech Republic

Standards of palliative care in the Czech Republic

France

TB guidelines 2011

Georgia

Order of Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs about opiod ordering

Georgian national programme for palliative care: action plan 2011-2015

TB guidelines 2011

Guatemala

Agreement of Constitution of the National Commission of Palliative Care of Guatemala

Hungary

Hungarian Hospice-Palliative Association - professional guidelines 2002

National Cancer Control Programme

Palliative care in the National Cancer Control Programme

India

Palliative care policy for Kerala

Ireland

Report of the national advisory committee on palliative care

Israel

Israel Palliative Medical Society clinical guidelines for palliative care (draft)

National Palliative Care Policy

Italy 

Provisions to ensure access to palliative care and pain therapy (2010)

Kazakhstan

Palliative care in Kazakhstan (report)

Palliative care in the Republic of Kazakhstan (report)

Palliative care in Kazakhstan (2)

Kenya

National cancer control strategy  2011-2016

Kenya report

Kyrgyzstan

Palliative care needs assessment (draft1)

Lithuania

Lithuania patient rights law

Macedonia

Macedonia Palliative care needs assessment 2007

Malawi

Palliative Care Association of Malawi stragetic plan 2007-2008

Moldova

Palliative care needs assessment in Republic of Moldova 2005-2006

Moldova order on the organisation of palliative care services

Mongolia

National Cancer Control Programme 2007–2017

Palliative care standard (translation)

Morocco

National cancer prevention and control plan 2010-2019

New Zealand

Hospice New Zealand. Standards for the care of people approaching the end of life (pilot)

Hospice New Zealand: Standards for palliative care 2012

Norway

Norwegian Association for Palliative Medicine standard for palliative care

Portugal

TB guidelines 2011

Romania

National standards in palliative care

Partnership to develop first Romanian national palliative care plan

Russia

TB guidelines 2011

Serbia

National palliative care strategy (draft)

South Africa

HIV and AIDS and STI stragetic plan for South Africa 2007-2011 (part 1)

HIV and AIDS and STI stragetic plan for South Africa 2007-2011 (part 2)

HIV and AIDS and STI stragetic plan for South Africa 2007-2011 (part 3)

HIV and AIDS and STI stragetic plan for South Africa 2007-2011 (part 4)

Hospice palliative care standards (2009)

Spain

National health system palliative care strategy

Palliative care services: guide to quality criteria

Switzerland

National strategy for palliative care

National cancer programme for Switzerland 2011-2015

Swaziland

National palliative care guidelines

Stragetic plan for the nationwide provison of palliative care

Tajikistan

Palliative care in the Republic of Tajikistan

Turkey

National cancer programme

Uganda

National Drug Policy and Authority Act

Nurse Prescribing Authority

Ukraine

Ukraine national palliative care plan 2009-2013

Appraisal and needs assessment of palliative care in Ukraine (2007)

TB guidelines 2011

UK

Gold Standards Framework primary care briefing paper

End of life care strategy

Clinical standards specialist paliative care (2002) Scotland

Standards for hospice and palliative care chaplaincy

USA

Clinical practice guidelines for quality palliative care (2nd edition)

Medicare Program, Hospice Care, 1983

Vietnam

Guidelines on palliative care for cancer and AIDS patients

Palliative care in Vietnam: findings from a rapid situation analysis