{"id":482,"date":"2012-01-10T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=482"},"modified":"2012-02-23T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T11:50:22","slug":"another-step-toward-integrated-palliative-care-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2012\/01\/10\/another-step-toward-integrated-palliative-care-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Another step toward integrated palliative care in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Singaporean Ministry of Health has set up a taskforce to create a national palliative care strategy.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lienpallcare.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Report_on_National_Strategy_for_Palliative_Care%204Jan2012.pdf\">report<\/a> released last year by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lienpallcare.org\/\">Lien Centre for Palliative Care <\/a>made several recommendations to improve end-of-life care in the country. The Minister for Health has accepted the report\u2019s conclusions and a team of people will now begin work to make them a reality. Key recommendations include extending palliative care to non-cancer patients with life-limiting illnesses, increase communication between different health service providers so that patients experience a seamless transition to palliative care and improving training to ensure that there are enough skilled palliative care professionals in the country.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singaporean Ministry of Health has set up a taskforce to create a national palliative care strategy. A report released last year by the Lien Centre for Palliative Care made several recommendations to improve end-of-life care in the country. The Minister for Health has accepted the report\u2019s conclusions and a team of people will now [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2012\/01\/10\/another-step-toward-integrated-palliative-care-in-singapore\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}