WISH 2024: Palliative Care Report
26th November 2024
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, took place from 13–14 November 2024 in Doha, Qatar.
WISH is a global healthcare community dedicated to capturing and disseminating the best evidence-based ideas and practices. https://wish.org.qa/ The biennial meeting features more than 200 experts in health speaking about evidence-based ideas and practices in healthcare innovation to address the world’s most urgent global health challenges. The event is attended by government Ministers of Health, diplomats, policy makers, media and opinion leaders from around the world.
WISH and the World Health Organization collaborated to create evidence-based reports and policy papers launched at WISH. The reports aim to provide policy recommendations for innovative, practical solutions to strengthen people-centred health systems that can provide equitable, accessible and quality health for all individuals, families and their communities.
The WHO-led reports, featured within plenary sessions, focused on the elimination of tuberculosis, the growing importance of palliative care, and protecting health in armed conflict.
Cicely Saunders International BuildPall post-doctoral fellow Dr Anna Peeler, Professor Richard Harding and Professor Katherine Sleeman from the Cicely Saunders Institute collaborated on the palliative care report Palliative Care: How Can We Respond to 10 Years of Limited Progress? with Dr Richard Harding leading the plenary session on palliative care.
The BMJ has also published an opinion piece on the report https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11528410/
Peeler A, Afolabi O, Harding R. Palliative care is an overlooked global health priority BMJ 2024; 387 :q2387 doi:10.1136/bmj.q2387