Report of the WHO South-East Asia Regional workshop on expanding availability and access to palliative care.

Substantial effort is needed to make palliative care available and accessible to the people in need. This workshop was being organized as an effort to support countries in bring palliative care into priority at policies and strengthen the capacity to plan and implement programs for palliative care

Objectives of the workshop:

1. To support countries to review the current status of palliative care services and to identify gaps in access and availability.
2. To identify opportunities to enhance human resource, including the increased role for nurses, to improve availability and access to palliative care in community.
3. To support adoption of guide for expanding availability and access to palliative care and development of country specific plans.