Collaboration in the Mortuary Sector
In the heart of Düsseldorf, the "Düsseldorf Hospice and Palliative Forum" (DHPF) has been established with a mission to improve and enhance hospice and palliative care in the city. The forum aims to preserve the core values of hospice and palliative services, emphasizing quality of care over profit, and resisting the trend of commodification that threatens the holistic and compassionate nature of hospice care.
Claudius Löns, a palliative physician in Düsseldorf, has stated the forum's primary objective. The DHPF seeks to maintain hospice care's integrity by focusing on patient dignity, symptom management, and psychosocial support rather than financial incentives.
To achieve this, the forum has established and will operate four expert working groups. These groups, led by Anita Kramer and Barbara Krug, consist of professionals from various disciplines within hospice and palliative care. Their mission is to develop best practice guidelines, promote ethical standards, and influence policy to ensure care remains patient-centered and ethically sound.
The expert working groups will be based in Düsseldorf-South (Ecumenical Hospice Movement) and EVK Düsseldorf. They will serve as platforms for sharing knowledge, advancing education, and fostering interdisciplinary cooperation to improve care quality and address emerging challenges related to commercialization pressures.
The DHPF will also intensively engage with the expected new proposals in the Bundestag. The forum offers itself as a discussion partner, with a focus on raising awareness of hospice themes and palliative care in Düsseldorf.
The round table, an extension of the Hospice Forum, involves welfare associations and clinics in Düsseldorf. In recent years, the Hospice Forum and the round table have been led by Dr. Nada Ralic and Franz-Josef Conrads.
The work of the expert groups is in response to the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court (§217 of the Criminal Code - Commercial Promotion of Suicide). The DHPF aims to prevent commercialization and provide more security for those affected and their accompaniers.
Through continuous dialogue and expert collaboration, the DHPF works to balance the demands of healthcare systems with the unique needs of terminally ill patients, ensuring compassionate care remains at the forefront. The DHPF invites all stakeholders to join in this endeavour, fostering a community dedicated to the provision of dignified care in a familiar environment.
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