Pal-Cycles

Palliative Care Yields Cancer wellbEing Support (Pal-Cycles) is an HORIZON-HLTH-2021-DISEASE-04 European Project, that aims to develop, adapt, implement, and evaluate a transitional palliative care programme for patients and families dealing with advanced cancer. The Pal-Cycles Programme aspires for a smooth transition from hospital care to community care. The hypothesis is that fewer people in the intervention arm of the study will require hospital admission than those receiving usual care, that emergency or unplanned readmissions will be reduced due to greater recognition of illness status and plans to manage deterioration in a personalized, patient-centred and integrated manner. This is likely to have cost benefits and will result in more patients with cancer being able to die at the preferred place of care (often home). Ten partners from nine European countries (The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Portugal, Spain and Belgium) are involved in the consortium partnership. Using multi-method approaches, this research group will develop and adapt an intervention to the local, social, cultural, and economic contexts of seven countries (The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Portugal).