World Hospice & Palliative Care Day 2025 Achieving the Promise: Universal access to palliative care
World Hospice & Palliative Care Day 2025 Achieving the Promise: Universal access to palliative care
ehospice; by Stephen Connor; 7/7/25
This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of World Hospice & Palliative Care Day (World Day). ... World Day is organised by the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance each second Saturday in October, this year on 11 October 2025, on behalf of the global palliative care community, including international, national, and regional palliative care organisations such as the IAHPC, ICPCN, PallCHASE, APCA, EAPC, ALCP, APHN, and including national organisations such as the IAPC. ... This year’s theme, Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care, builds on last year’s to explore what is needed in the coming 5-10 years to build toward universal access to palliative care, especially as part of universal health coverage. The subthemes this year are:
- Empowering people and compassionate communities
- Implement palliative care policies to improve access
- Integrate palliative care fully into healthcare systems through UHC
... This year, our KEY ASK is Full Integration of Palliative Care into Health Systems in the Next Five Years. We are also asking those planning events to complete our ‘Call to Action’ on the website at: https://thewhpca.org/share-your-story/.