SPICT Goes to Prague
European Association for Palliative Care – May 2026
Congratulations to Professor Scott Murray, one of the SPICT programme founders, who received the Cecily Saunders Award 2026.
We were delighted to meet colleagues from across Europe and around the world who are already part of our SPICT international programme. It was great to hear about new service developments, education and policy initiatives that use SPICT. We look forward to welcoming more SPICT partners.
SPICT is increasingly being used to help with the earlier identification of people with life-shortening conditions whose health is changing. More people and families can be offered a palliative care approach that helps them live as well as possible. SPICT and its linked guides do much more than identify someone – they support holistic palliative care and person-centred conversations about planning current and future care.
- View our SPICT Poster
SPICT 2025 versions have updated language and include mental health, but the overall structure of SPICT and the two groups of indicators is the same. At the conference, we agreed to widen a recommended action that is a key part of any palliative care review:
- Review holistic care – symptoms; emotional, social, functional, financial, spiritual, cultural needs. Support families and carers. (SPICT, SPICT-4ALL, SPICT-LIS 2026)
SPICT translations
Several people asked about making new translations and sharing their existing language or country translations with us via the SPICT website. We encourage people from the same country or language to work together.
Doing an initial translation does require a more detailed process, but it is an opportunity to prompt discussions about palliative care with colleagues invited to help your translation team. Updating an existing translation is simpler.
Our updated SPICT translations page has more information and templates that are free to download and use. We always encourage people from the same country or language to work together.
REDMAP framework
REDMAP supports person centred conversations about care planning. In Scotland, we call this Future Care Planning. Our ‘Using SPICT’ guides already include REDMAP.
The SPICT website has a new section for REDMAP resources.
If you’d like to translate REDMAP, please contact us.
It would be great to see more SPICT posters and presentations in Glasgow next year. We are working with several EAPC groups to propose a SPICT seminar and/or workshop for the conference. More news on this soon.
Keeping in touch
Please contact us or send us an email ([email protected]) if you have any questions or ideas about how we can develop our SPICT international programme and the SPICT website. Sign up to receive SPICT news if you are not on our Mailing List yet.
Best wishes
Sarah, Kirsty and Sam
Dr Sarah Mills,
Dr Kirsty Boyd
Dr Sam Quinn
SPICT International Programme Team