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Saatja: europc <[email protected]> Saadetud: 29.10.2021 09:53 Adressaat: Elen Ohov <[email protected]> Koopia: Triin Uusberg <[email protected]>; SM Info <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; KÖHLER, Kristina <[email protected]> Teema: Invitation to nominate: Regional Technical briefing on Palliative Care, 19 Nov 2021 Dear National Counterpart, Please find attached nomination letter for your kind attention, noting that the deadline for nomination is 10 November. Yours sincerely, Health Workforce and Service Delivery Programme WHO Regional Office for Europe Copenhagen, Denmark Web: Follow WHO on | | | WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ WELTGESUNDHEITSORGANISATION Date: 29 October 2021 ВСЕМИРНАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЯ REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE Ms Elen Ohov BUREAU RÉGIONAL DE L’EUROPE REGIONALBÜRO FÜR EUROPA Adviser ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЕ БЮРО European Union Affairs and International Co- Head office: operation Department UN City, Marmorvej 51, Ministry of Social Affairs DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Suur-Ameerika 1 Tel.: +45 45 33 70 00; Fax: +45 45 33 70 01 Email: [email protected] 10122 Tallinn Website: http://www.euro.who.int Estonia Our reference: Your reference: Notre référence: Votre référence: Unser Zeichen: Ihr Zeichen: См. наш номер: На Ваш номер: Dear Ms Ohov, WHO European Regional Technical Briefing – Strengthening Palliative Care Friday 19 November 2021 (10:30–12:30 CET) The WHO Regional Office for Europe is honoured to host this virtual technical briefing, to which I have the pleasure of inviting two nominated representatives from your country. The technical briefing will focus on the development, implementation and improvement of palliative care for people with life- threatening illnesses. Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients (adults and children) and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. Its aim is to prevent and relieve suffering by means of early identification and correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual. In 2014, the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA67.19 on “Strengthening of palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life-course”. This resolution advocates for the inclusion of palliative care as part of universal health coverage. The purpose of this technical briefing is to provide Member States with an overview of palliative care and provide guidance and support on how palliative care services can be developed and integrated into health care for those with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. The webinar will demonstrate how improving access to palliative care can positively impact on the lives of people with life-limiting or life- threatening illness and their families in the WHO European Region. Aim and objectives The aim of the webinar is to support and strengthen the development of palliative care in countries of the WHO European Region. The objectives are to: • monitor and identify key emergent needs in the Region and implications for palliative care service development and system strengthening as an integrated component of health services delivery and as part of universal health coverage; UN City, Marmorvej 51 Tel.: +45 45 33 70 00 Email: [email protected] DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Fax: +45 45 33 70 01 Website: http://www.euro.who.int Denmark  • support implementation of WHO palliative care tools and highlight publications on palliative care, including guidelines on the development and implementation of palliative care, palliative care for children, access to essential medicines for pain and symptom management and the newly published palliative care indicators;1 and • review available and emerging research and evidence on models of development, provision and integration of services in palliative care, including financing. It is my pleasure to invite you to nominate two people from your country to attend and participate in this technical briefing. The participants should be officials from the ministry who are leading on, or are responsible for, palliative care provision (the Ministry of Health or Ministry of Social Affairs, for instance) and who have the capacity, interest and authority to represent their organization and report back. The working language will be English with simultaneous Russian interpretation provided. The WHO European Regional Technical Briefing will take place online. Participants will receive a Zoom link to the meeting following confirmation of their participation. We look forward to receiving your two nominations, giving the names, job titles, organizations/departments and email addresses of the proposed participants at your earliest convenience, and no later than 10 November 2021. We shall then communicate with them directly and provide them with the necessary documentation and administrative information in good time. Satish Mishra is responsible for this activity and it would be appreciated if you would address your reply to him at [email protected], copying in Rosario Espinola Sanchez at [email protected]. Sincerely yours, Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat Director, Division of Country Health Policies and Systems Encls: Scope and purpose Provisional agenda Copy for information to: Ms Triin Uusberg, Head, European and International Coordination Department, Ministry of Social Affairs, Suur-Ameerika 1, 10129 Tallinn, Estonia H.E. Ms Katrin Saarsalu-Layachi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Estonia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28A, CH-1209 Genève, Switzerland H.E. Mr William Mart Laanemäe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Estonia, Frederiksgade 19, 4th floor, 1265 Copenhagen K, Denmark Ms Kristina Köhler, Liaison Officer, WHO Country Office, Estonia, Paldiski Road 81, 10617 Tallinn, Estonia 1 WHO (2021). Assessing the development of palliative care worldwide: a set of actionable indicators. Geneva: World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240033351, accessed 24 October 2021). –2– WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE BUREAU RÉGIONAL DE L'EUROPE WELTGESUNDHEITSORGANISATION ВСЕМИРНАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ REGIONALBÜRO FÜR EUROPA ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЯ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЕ БЮРО WHO European Regional Technical /2 Briefing – Strengthening Palliative Care Virtual meeting 13 October 2021 19 November 2021 (10:30–12:30 CET) Original: English Scope and purpose Background Palliative care has been recognized as an integral part of universal health coverage 1 and, along with prevention, promotion, treatment and rehabilitation, as a key strategy for achieving and maintaining population health.2 Palliative care is a crucial part of integrated, people-centred health services at all levels of care and should be available to all who need it regardless of age or diagnosis. The WHO European Region has a rapidly ageing population with an increasing number of people with noncommunicable diseases. It is estimated that 5 million people in the Region need palliative care each year and of these, 65% have no access to palliative care services. Developing and integrating palliative care requires both a primary health care and a public health approach that maximizes the level and distribution of health and well-being across the whole of society through multisectoral policy and action.3 This is a part of the WHO European Programme of Work (EPW),4 which runs from 2020 to 2025. The EPW commenced in 2020, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on all health services across the European Region. Over the last 18 months, citizens from every country in the Region have been affected by the pandemic and health service capacity has been stretched. During this time, WHO acted swiftly and decisively to deal with this crisis. The pandemic has highlighted the need to ensure that palliative care is available to all who need it. Providing end-of-life care has been challenging throughout the pandemic, and the skills and experience of those working in palliative care have been highlighted. World Health Assembly resolution 67.191 highlights the need to strengthen palliative care through the development of national palliative care policies, access to essential medicines for pain and other symptoms,5 education and training in palliative care for all health-care staff, and the integration of palliative care services into existing health-care systems in the WHO European Region. The inclusion of universal health care in its European priorities for the next five years 1 Resolution 67.19. Strengthening of palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2014 (https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/162863). 2 Declaration of Alma-Ata. International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 6–12 September 1978. Geneva: World Health Organization; 1978 (https://www.who.int/teams/social-determinants-of- health/declaration-of-alma-ata). 3 Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into primary healthcare. A WHO guide for planners, implementers, and mangers. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018 (https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/274559). 4 European Programme of Work 2020–2025: United Action for Better Health in Europe. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe; 2021 (https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/339209). 5 Resolution 67.22. Access to essential medicines. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2014 (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/162868/A67_R22-en.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y). Scope and purpose page 2 enables WHO to highlight the need for palliative care and provides the opportunity to support authorities in Member States to develop palliative care as part of public health. Consistent with this commitment to palliative care development, the Regional Office will organize a technical briefing on palliative care. The technical briefing is aimed at those responsible for palliative care at national level in Member States’ ministries of health and national policy- and decision-makers. In addition, WHO country representatives and those active in the development of palliative care in Member States will also be invited to attend. The technical briefing will be developed in collaboration with experts from a range of organizations and academic institutions with expertise in palliative care. Date and time The WHO European Regional Technical Briefing will be held on Friday 19 November 2021 and the duration will be two hours, from 10:30 to 12:30, Central European Time. Aim and objectives The aim is to support and strengthen the development of palliative care in countries of the WHO European Region. The objectives are to: • monitor and identify key emergent needs in the Region and implications for palliative care service development and system strengthening as an integrated component of health services delivery and as part of universal health coverage; • support implementation of WHO palliative care tools and highlight publications on palliative care, including guidelines on the development and implementation of palliative care, palliative care for children, access to essential medicines for pain and symptom management and the newly published palliative care indicators; 6 and • review available and emerging research and evidence on models of development, provision and integration of services in palliative care, including financing. Participants Palliative care experts and representatives from relevant ministries of WHO European Region Member States will participate in the technical briefing. Languages of the technical briefing The working language will be English with simultaneous Russian interpretation provided. Preparatory documents will also be available in English and Russian. 6 Assessing the development of palliative care worldwide: a set of actionable indicators. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021 (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240033351). WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE BUREAU RÉGIONAL DE L'EUROPE WELTGESUNDHEITSORGANISATION ВСЕМИРНАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЯ REGIONALBÜRO FÜR EUROPA ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЕ БЮРО WHO Regional Technical Briefing – /3 Strengthening Palliative Care Virtual meeting 13 October 2021 19 November 2021 (10:30–12:30 CET) Original: English Provisional agenda • Introduction, welcome and overview • The development of palliative care in the WHO European Region • Integrating palliative care into national health systems – practical steps • WHO palliative care tools • Organization and delivery of palliative care – country examples • Conclusion For more information, contact: Satish Mishra, Technical Officer – Disability, Rehabilitation, Palliative and Long-term Care, WHO Regional Office for Europe [email protected]