Enabling End-of-Life care for all
Together we can unlock access
In collaboration with our healthcare and community partners, we are on a journey to unlock universal palliative and end-of-life care for patients, family caregivers and families in Ghana by 2030.
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If you have a question, want to find out more about our work or are interested in partnering with us then please get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.
Make a difference
By channelling your investment into innovative health initiatives, you can use your resources as a force for good – alleviating avoidable suffering one family and community at a time.
The current situation
- 86%: of the Ghanaian population are without access to meaningful palliative and end-of-life care
- 63: Average age of death
- 5: Average number of days from a patient’s referral to a palliative team to their death
- 48%: of the population have no National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) or other medical health insurance provision who must pay out of pocket for their care, medicines and pain relief.
- 30%: of the population are facing significant journeys, often on foot, to their local hospital
In low-resource communities in Ghana, the lack of palliative care means that patients with life-limiting illnesses are too often left to die an isolated, painful and undignified death.
“The desire to care for dying loved ones is universal but access to palliative and end-of-life care in Ghana is not.” – Dr Cecilia Akrisie Anim CBE, FRSA, FRCN
“Many families can face loss of income, disruption to education and personal anguish and anxiety, directly trapping them and future generations into cycles of poverty.” – Mr Ernest Ahiaku MB, FRCS,FGCPS, DL
Our mission
Working through local communities and trusted institutions, our mission is to reduce suffering and hardship in resource-poor communities by enabling Ghanaians to embed end-of-life care excellence into existing healthcare systems.
Our work and impact
By bringing clinical learning, innovation, education and research we help embed world-leading standards of palliative care into Ghana’s healthcare ecosystem. Self-reliance is a key part of this as we give communities the skills and capability required to deliver palliative care for all. We educate, empower and collaborate to drive positive systematic change.
Educate through research
We promote education, research and the advancement of clinical and traditional knowledge
in the field of palliative and end-of-life care, particularly in resource-poor communities, to further the quality and impact of care.
Empower through training
We facilitate needs-based training in palliative care for professionals, patients, family caregivers, families and institutions enabling them to become confident and as self-reliant as reasonably practicable in their interventions.
Collaboration through partnerships
We support and collaborate with other healthcare and community organisations in Ghana and the surrounding region, working collectively to improve and embed quality palliative Care.
Our Innovative model
In line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of No Poverty (Goal 1) and Good Health and Well Being (Goal 3) we are working alongside other healthcare and community organisations to develop an innovative hub and spoke model that integrates the highest standards of palliative care into existing systems.
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Our Partners
Our trusted healthcare and community partners are key to driving our mission.
We partner with trusts, grant providers, associations, corporate entities and Non-Government Organisations to deliver our collective goals in Ghana; discover our key partners and how your organisation could collaborate with us to drive change.
Our Team
A caring team experienced in healthcare, social impact, innovation and transformational change.
Our Values
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If you have a question, want to find out more about our work or are interested in partnering with us then please get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.
