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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
12 October 2025 All day
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is an annual unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world.
WHPCD has been marked every year for the last 20 years. Join us on Saturday 11 October to advocate for better hospice and palliative care services around the world.
The theme for 2025 is Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care. This theme builds on last year’s campaign, where we 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.” The aim is to achieve this promise.
