National and Professional Associations in Slovenia
In July 1996, the Slovene Hospice Society (Hospic) was first registered.6 Its immediate aims were: to make oral morphine available; to educate health workers and patients about morphine; to provide education, training and literature on palliative care; to sensitise public and professionals to the importance of hospice care; to find financial support to make links with similar projects in Europe.
The Institute for Palliative Care Development in Ljubljana obtained a major grant from OSI in 2001 and works with the public and the professions to encourage debate and communication on end-of-life care issues. It also seeks to promote changes in the health care system and to collate 'facts and arguments to influence the law to give status to palliative care in Slovenia so that education can be acknowledged and new standards accepted. After that legally and financially covered palliative care departments could be formed'.7 There is also a Slovenian Association for Pain Management.
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