During March 2nd and 3rd, the WeCare board had the pleasure to host a group of heads of the European Palliative Care Academy’s International Leadership Master. The fruitful meeting resulted in the official joining of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in such programme. The Master “Leadership in Palliative Care” has been shaping leaders in their bi-annual courses…
On November 14, 2019, an Update Conference of the Catalan-Balearic Society of Palliative Care was held. This event consisted of a round table where the latest news and publications on palliative care at the regional level were discussed. Around 80 assistants had the opportunity to listen to and comment with Andrea Rodríguez-Prat on their…
On March 7, our director Cristina Monforte traveled to the city of Amsterdam to take part in the symposium ‘Ethics for Medics 2020’. In there, she had the opportunity to present a conference under the title ‘Suffering and the Wish Key Hasten Death in patients with advanced disease’. She used her time to present and explain the last works made by our researchers, which evidence the direct relation between suffering and…
Currently, the European Association of Palliative Care has a total of nineteen Task Force groups that are formed by interested EAPC members from a range of disciplines and different countries who work together to deliver on focused time-limited projects. The WeCare research group proudly provides their member to a new Task Force added by the…
Access the recording Dying alone during the pandemic COVID-19: A reflection on clinical practice On June 11, the first Webinar of 2020 was organized with Aristo’s collaboration. For an hour and a half, we had the opportunity to discuss the meaning of leaving this world alone in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the…
On November 23, a working session was held between hematology and palliative care researchers to design a research project aimed at improving the care of patients with multiple myeloma. The directors of the WeCare chair participated in the session: Dr. Josep Porta, Dr. Cristina Monforte, and the team’s researchers, Dr. Andrea Rodríguez, Dr.…
The research group of the WeCare chair, in collaboration with researchers from the team, has published the research protocol of the multicenter national project recently funded by the Carlos III Health Institute (PI19 / 1901). The project aims to design and systematize the evaluation of patients requiring palliative care. To do this, the team of researchers…
Blanca Goñi, a predoctoral student of the WeCare Chair research team, along with her team won the first prize for the best oral communication at the XI Congress of the Catalan-Balearic Society for Palliative Care, Science and Art, which took place during on February 14 and 15 at the World Trade Center in Barcelona. …
As part of a new collaboration between the WeCare Chair and the Cicely Saunders Institute, two members of WeCare attended a two-day workshop held on 13 and 14 February 2020 at King’s College London, at the Cicely Saunders Institute. The workshop title was: ‘Outcome Measurement in Palliative Care with POS (Palliative Outcome Scale) Family of…
Crespo I, Rodríguez-Prat A, Porta-Sales J, Wilson K, Balaguer A, Monforte-Royo C. Health-related quality of life in patients with advanced cancer who express a wish to hasten death: A comparative study. Palliat Med. 2020 Feb 27:269216320904607; doi: 10.1177/0269216320904607