Palliative care is intrinsically multidisciplinary and can only be achieved through the development of collaborative practices in city-hospital networks consisting of:
- A palliative care coordination team generally composed of a specialist medical doctor, a nurse, a psychologist and a secretary.
- The city professionals: independents generalist and specialist doctors, nurses, other homecare actors such as social care actors, voluntary workers, homehelpers,...
PALLIANET aims at improving collaborative practices in Palliative Care networks, in particular communications and real time access to information for healthcare professionals involved in these networks, in order to improve the quality of care services. The system will enable a Palliative Care Team to support allied professional care providers, both medical practitioners and non-medical professionals in:
- Better understanding the patient's context (clinical, psychological and social dimensions),
- Making relevant decisions in a complex and unusual context.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.pallianet.eupm.netProject co-ordinator:
GFIPartners:
- GFI Benelux (BE)
- Airial Conseil S.A. (FR)
- E-Net Solutions S.A. (GR)
- Language & Computing Nv (BE)
- Sword Technology S.A. (LU)
- Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital - Palliative Care department (UK)
- Nepale Palliative Care network (FR)
Timetable: from 01/04 to 06/06
Total cost: 4,221,000
EC funding: 2,350,000
Instrument: STREP
Project Identifier: IST-2002-507863