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Plenary Session - How can palliative care get a 'decent crack of the whip' of Universal Health Reform?
Session Description
Robert Yates
Director, Global Health Programme; Executive Director, Centre for Universal Health, Chatham House, UK
Across the world, all countries are committed to achieving the sustainable development goal of Universal Health Coverage whereby everyone receives the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. This requires healthy-wealthy people subsidising health services for the poor and vulnerable and can only be achieved through a publicly financed health system, which requires sustained political commitment at the highest level of government.
Director, Global Health Programme; Executive Director, Centre for Universal Health, Chatham House, UK
Across the world, all countries are committed to achieving the sustainable development goal of Universal Health Coverage whereby everyone receives the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. This requires healthy-wealthy people subsidising health services for the poor and vulnerable and can only be achieved through a publicly financed health system, which requires sustained political commitment at the highest level of government.
As well as preventive and curative services a universal package of health services ought to include a full-range of palliative care services for people who need them, but often vulnerable people and their families are denied essential end-of-life care as limited public finances are prioritised for other services. So how can palliative care advocates articulate the case for increased political commitment and public financing for palliative care services and might the COVID-19 crisis provide an opportunity to champion the merits of UHC, including palliative care, to political leaders?
