Progress in Palliative Care

Volume 18 (2010), 6 issues per year

   This journal publishes open access papers.
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Progress in Palliative Care is a peer reviewed, multidisciplinary journal with an international perspective. It provides a central point of reference for all members of the palliative care community: medical consultants, nurses, hospital support teams, home care teams, hospice directors and administrators, pain centre staff, social workers, chaplains, counsellors, information staff, paramedical staff and self-help groups. The emphasis of the journal is on the rapid exchange of information amongst those working in palliative care.

Progress in Palliative Care embraces all aspects of the management of the problems of end-stage disease. It provides a single forum for current trends and controversies, and a major listing of the international research literature, including that which is novel and pertinent though not widely available. Material for the whole multi-disciplinary palliative care community is brought together in one journal. It is published on the premise that the field is expanding so fast and that published information is so widely scattered that a single, easily digestible source, with a strong research orientation, is essential to enable colleagues to keep abreast of new developments. The Editorial Board is international and includes a wide variety of disciplines.

The journal particularly welcomes original papers on paediatrics; allied health; palliative care and the ageing population; and public health. All papers undergo peer review.

Special Issue: Home Palliative Care Services, guest edited by Dr Sara Booth: Celebrating 40 years of palliative home care.  Volume 18.1, to be published February 2010.

Key article: The Origins and Development of Palliative Care at Home by Dr Mary Baines, founder of the first specialist palliative care home service in modern times as St Christopher’s Hospice in 1969. This is the first extensive record by Dr Baines documenting the establishment of this service.

Read the Press Release.

Read the Editorial (by Sara Booth) and one article on Home Care in Uganda (by Anne Merriman) FREE online now!

Click on the Special Issues link to the right of the page for the full contents of this issue and to order a copy.

Other special issues in 2010 include:
Pharmaceutical Care (Volume 18.3, June 2010)
Palliative Care and Social Work (Volume 18.5, October 2010) 

Online Manuscript Submission, Tracking and Peer Review System

We are pleased to announce the introduction of the Online Manuscript Submission, Tracking and Peer Review System for Progress in Palliative Care.  Authors have the benefit of being able to upload papers direct to the journal by registering at the system homepage: http://palliative.edmgr.com. Click on the Instructions for Authors for more information.

COURSE: End of Life Care - an accredited 3-day foundation course for HSAs/Support Workers
The aim is to provide three training days for Health Care Assistants and Support Workers working in the front line of 'End of Life' Care. This foundation course will enable you to develop skills and knowledge related to the care of the dying person and their family. Of particular interest to staff working in Care Homes, Hospitals, Hospices or in the community. Also agency staff working in Continuing Care. Accreditation will be assessed through the completion of an Assessment Workbook. The programme will also contribute to the underpinning knowledge required for NVQ Levels 2 and 3 in Health and Social Care.

Course dates: 26-28th April and 8-10th September 2010      £285.00      St. Christopher's Hospice, London
Contact: Tracey O'Flaherty at T.OFlaherty@stchristophers.org.uk

Special Offer
Maney Publishing are pleased to offer individual subscribers of Hospice Information a specially reduced rate on subscriptions to Progress in Palliative Care. View our subscriptions page for further information.