Report of the WHO South-East Asia Regional workshop on expanding availability and access to palliative care

1. To support countries to review the current status of palliative care services and to identify gaps in access and availability. 

2. To identify opportunities to enhance human resource, including the increased role for nurses, to improve availability and access to palliative care in community. 

3. To support identification of country specific priorities and development of stepwise approach for expanding availability and access to palliative care. 

This report summarizes the proceedings of the workshop and the outcomes in terms of key inputs and identified country plans, priorities and the stepwise approach to improving availability and access to palliative care.