Tara Cook Award for Innovation in Neuropalliative Education for Action Chair Piret Paal

Congratulations to our Action Chair Piret Paal for receiving the Tara Cook Award for Innovation in Neuropalliative Education from the International Neuropalliative Care Society (INPCS) at the 4th INPCS Annual Meeting 2024 (September 20-22, 2024) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Piret Paal herself highlights the relevance of innovation in the field of Neuropalliative Care Education: “Dissemination…

CODE-YAA@PC-EDU 1st Working Group Meeting in Yerevan

Education in palliative care plays a crucial role in ensuring that healthcare professionals have the necessary knowledge and skills to provide quality care to patients with serious illnesses. Meetings and projects involving experts from various fields such as medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, and more can help in sharing best practices, research findings, and innovative…

Congratulations to Henri – Andreas Mullalli, MSc, our CODE-YAA ITC conference grant winner!

We are happy to announce and sincerely congratulate the winner of our CODE-YAA@PC-EDU ITC conference grant: Henri – Andreas Mullalli, MSc from Galilee Palliative Care Centre (Spata Attica, Greece) His abstract entitled “Symptom Burden and Concerns: Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale upon Admission to a Palliative Care Centre” was accepted for poster presentation at the…

CODE-YAA@PC-EDU 1st Working Group Meeting

  On June 27-28, 2024, the first CODE-YAA@PC-EDU face-to-face Working Group meeting is scheduled in Yerevan, Armenia. This meeting unites the projects Working Groups 1-6 to commonly present and discuss individual results and first milestones achieved, focusing on specific quality indicators defined for implementation of a gold standard in high-quality palliative care education and for…

CODE-YAA@PC-EDU presentation at the Annual Research Thinktank of the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person

On February 15, 2024, the CODE-YAA project was presented at the Annual Research Thinktank of the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person by Dr Stephen Mason. As head of CODE-YAA Working Group 1 (Gold Standard: Defining quality indicators for Palliative Care Education; testing the CODE-YAA tool), Dr Mason introduced our project, aims,…