Primary Palliative Care

What is Primary Palliative Care?

Primary palliative care is palliative care practised by primary health care workers, who are the principal providers of integrated health care for people in local communities throughout their life. It includes early identification and triggering of palliative care as part of integrated and holistic chronic disease management, collaborating with specialist palliative care services where they exist, and strengthening underlying professional capabilities in primary care. (Munday et al., 2019)

Aims of our Special Interest Group

To bring together colleagues in the Asia Pacific Region who are working in primary care and/or palliative care with a vision for delivering palliative care in the community within primary care. Read our terms of reference here.

Core Committee

Dr Chamath Fernando (Chair, Sri Lanka)
Dr Karin Estapa-Garcia (Secretary, The Philippines)

Dr Ednin Hamzah (Advisor to the SIG, Chairperson APHN, Malaysia)
Dr Daniel Munday (Advisor to the SIG, Nepal/ United Kingdom)
Professor Scott Murray (International Advisor to the SIG, United Kingdom)

Dr Maria Witjaksono (Indonesia)
Dr Agnes Bausa-Claudio (The Philippines)
Dr Jenifer Jeba S. (India)
Dr Sylvia McCarthy (Malaysia)
Dr Teguh Kristian Perdamaian (Indonesia)
Dr Shrikant Atreya (India)
Dr Attakorn Raksasataya (Thailand)
Dr Kinley Bhuti (Bhutan)

Mr Cheng Tah Nern (Coordinator, Singapore)

Contact (Secretary): kayeestepagarcia@gmail.com
Express your interest in joining us via: https://forms.gle/QAKzHti9w9D3r6Ps7

Current Key Activities

	Key area	Principal objective/s	Leads and fellow members
1	WONCA Collaborative Fund Proposal	To develop a competency framework in palliative care for physicians in primary care practice.	Dr Shrikant Atreya (Co-lead) Dr Chamath Fernando (Co-lead) Dr Kinley Bhuti
2	Asian PPC Survey	To map and define primary palliative care in Asia.	Dr Teguh Kristian Perdamaian (Lead) Dr Chamath Fernando Dr Attakorn Raksasatya Dr Maria Witjaksono Dr Agnes Bausa Claudio Dr Daniel Munday Dr Jenifer Jeba Dr Sylvia McCarthy
3	Education/ CME series	To engage health professionals, researchers and policymakers through continuing educational activities themed on ‘primary palliative care’.	Dr Jenifer Jeba (Co-lead) Dr Sylvia McCarthy (Co-lead) Dr Maria Witjaksono
4	Official collaboration with the World Health Organization	Coordinating projects and educational activities with the WHO as required.	Dr Chamath Fernando (Lead)