Dear Readers,
A great number of nice and ambitious tasks are on their way. I only name the process of creating a mission statement, which we started at Johannes-Hospiz and which we try to bring into as many colleagues as possible. I also mention a new offer for people in mourning, which will be described under the heading “Everyday life in the hospice”. Furthermore, I point to those tasks that particularly concern the Academy. I think before all of our participation in working out the S3-guideline of palliative medicine concerning “anxiety” and of our cooperation in creating a curriculum “spiritual care”. Both tasks fall within the larger frame of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Palliativmedizin” (German Society for Palliative Medicine). Finally, I would like to refer to our cooperation with a study group of Salzburg’s Paracelsus University, which is dedicated to bringing about a core curriculum “Palliative Care” for the WHO area of Europe. I will be travelling in charge of that project from April to September. My aim will be to collect data from several countries of that area. This will be done by means of a structured quantitative questionnaire on the one hand side and by expert interviews with a focus on qualitative research on the other. That is why, dear reader, the June and September editions of the Newsletter will not be published. But I will report on my impressions and first results in the December edition.
Kind regards
Yours
Andreas Stähli
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