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Healthcare chaplaincy as a part of total care
Opatrná, Marie ; Ventura, Václav (advisor) ; Ryšková, Mireia (referee) ; Šipr, Květoslav (referee)
In the development of palliative care the Czech Republic still lags behind advanced countries. Whereas in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland palliative medicine together with pain treatment was recognized as a specialized branch already in 1987, in the Czech environment it was officially constituted as late as 2004. The core part of the WHO definition of palliative care says that "palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual." Palliative care thus inseparably includes attending to patients' existential, spiritual and religious needs. As one of the few exceptional facilities in the Czech Republic that follow the European trends, the Complex Oncology Centre (Oncology Clinic / Onkologická klinika 1. LF UK a VFN and Institute of Oncology, Ples / Onkologický ústav na Pleši) managed to fulfil the ESMO accreditation programme criteria and was awarded the ESMO accreditation in 2006. It thus became one of the European facilities performing integrated oncology and palliative care, a part of which is...
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