The Association of Palliative Care Practitioners of South Africa. Providing care that improves the quality of life of people with serious illness.
Joined May 2019
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PALPRAC retweeted
19 Jun 2025
Attending the 2025 Palliative Care Conference in Durban this week.. the theme is Revolution, Evolution, Solution #PCC2025
Today's theme: Revolution.. #PalliativeCare #PallCare
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PALPRAC retweeted
19 Jun 2025
“Palliative Care needs to be woven like a thread gently through the health system" @palprac @PatchPalliative #PCC2025 #PalliativeCare
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PALPRAC retweeted
19 Jun 2025
Dr Suresh Kumar from India: Kerala.. one of the top world experts in Compassionate Communities in PallCare.. what can we learn from their >30years experience.. In LMIC their lessons are key for us to absorb.. #PCC2025 #PalliativeCare @patchsa @palprac @APCC_SA a thread.. 1/?
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Half of the world's population still lacks access to essential health services, and almost 25% faces financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health spending. This is a human rights violation.
This #UHCDay, we urge leaders to invest in resilient and equitable health systems.
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Remember, you must be a member or have a "PALPRAC profile" to register for a session. You can create a profile or register for the session here: bit.ly/40ax6kq. PALPRAC members are free, welcoming all other healthcare providers for R50 /session. #Ethics #PalliativeCare
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Those in Cape Town: You are invited to explore the creative information that is bound up in your persistent difficulties – your chronic illness, relationship problems, habits and addictions, artistic blocks, or spiritual dilemmas. bit.ly/ChronicArt
@liferighting
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All you need is a PALPRAC profile to register. Create one here: join.mymembership.co.za/Join…
You can register for the session here: bit.ly/40ax6kq.
PALPRAC members are free, all other healthcare providers for R50 per session.
#Ethics #PalliativeCare
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It is #Movember. Men with testicular or prostate cancer also need #palliativecare.
Physical, emotional, social and spiritual care through the cancer journey. ex.movember.com/ @alignd @Margie_enfold
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PALPRAC is looking for an admin and membership coordinator. For more information bit.ly/PALPRACadminJD and complete this form bit.ly/PALPRACadmin @APCC_SA @Alignd @PatchPalliative @AmblerJulia
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Join us on 14 October from 10:00 – 13:00 with experts to explore community Palliative Care.
We are also hosting a live interview with the author of The Safari Concept: An African Framework for End-Of-Life Care.
To register: events.mm3.co.za/Event/?Id=9…
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Join us on 14 October from 10 – 1 pm together with international & local experts to explore community Palliative Care.
PALPRAC is also excited to host a live interview with the author of The Safari Concept: An African Framework for End-Of-Life Care. Details to follow.
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Dr Brown is a Paediatric Neonatologist, with a diploma in Paediatric Palliative Care (UCT) & Applied Ethics (SU) & is currently enrolled in a Masters in Bioethics.
Join us on 24 August 2023, 5 - 6 pm to review your case-specific ethics cases. Register: bit.ly/3lvkhBq
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Social Workers with a special interest in Oncology, please join us in brainstorming on how to expand palliative care through virtual methods.
Register at: lnkd.in/efDFG3Ak
#PALPRAC #PalliativeCare #SACO #SACO2023
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Celebrating our patients, peers, colleagues, friends, sisters, daughters, friends & loved ones. Happy Women's Day #WomensDay #WomensDay2023 #PalliativeCare #PALPRAC #WomeninPalliativeCare
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Join UCT Senior Lecturer Maggie De Swart and UCT Lecturer and Paediatrician Lyndal Gibbs as we get back to basics and discuss Opioid prescription in adults and children cancer patients. 🗓 27 JULY 2023 ⏰ 5 - 6 pm REGISTER bit.ly/3LE9tLO📧 info@palprac.org, #PALPRAC
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Our team can't believe it's been two months since our Palliative Care Conference in Cape Town. Sharing our closing video from the event with our communities youtu.be/ri7EybNn9rk @PatchPalliative @HPCA_SA #SAPCC23 #PalliativeCare #PALPRAC
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Hoping for the best. Planning for the rest. Oncology/Palliative Care Social Worker Linda Greef will provide guidelines in opening the difficult discussion around end-of-life care planning. Contact us at info@palprac.org / visit bit.ly/3JXgciA
#PALPRAC #PalliativeCare
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Compassionate Communities is this year's World Hospice and Palliative Care Day theme. PALPRAC invites our compassionate communities to join our online mini-symposium in their communities on World Hospice & Palliative Care Day. 🇿🇦#PALPRAC #CompassionateCommunities #WHPCDay23
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PALPRAC retweeted
8 May 2023
Great! Nurse and clinician 12 month consultancy for #PalliativeCare @MSF_uk closing date May 21st
msf.org.uk/palliative-care-t… msf.org.uk/nurse-palliative-…
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@EAPCvzw @cewalshe @PCI360 @lizgrant360 @PallChase @APCAssociation @IAHPC
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SA palliative care practitioners fight for the dying biznews.com/health/2023/05/0… via @biznewsCOM @PatchPalliative @HPCA_SA
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