WHPCD Toolkit Launch 2025

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is an annual unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world.

The WHPCD theme for 2025:

Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care

The theme for 2025 is Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care. The year 2024 marked 10 years since the World Health Assembly (WHO’s Governing Body) passed the only stand-alone resolution on palliative care, calling for all countries to “strengthen palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course.” This year, we decided to hold all stakeholders accountable in achieving this promise. Palliative care is fundamental to improving the quality of life, well-being, comfort, and human dignity for individuals and is an effective person-centred health service that values patients’ needs to receive accurate, personal and culturally sensitive information on health status, and to have a central role in making decisions about the treatment received.

The Resource Toolkit is now Live!

Feel free to download and start using the resources to promote, create awareness, and start planning your campaigns. Additional toolkits in six (Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Russian, Chinese)  languages will be available soon. Please keep checking the resources for updates. You could also do the following:

• Add your Event.
• Prepare to share stories that will make people laugh, cry and reflect