Monitoring and evaluation of palliative care reform in flanders

1/12/2024 to 31/12/2029
 

The Flemish Government initiated a reform of palliative care, emphasising person-centred care and palliative care as part of an integrated care approach. This vision was outlined in an action and transition plan to be implemented over the coming years. Researchers from the End-of-Life Care Research Group developed a scientifically grounded plan to monitor and evaluate how this reform is being implemented and what its results and eventual impacts are. As a follow-up to the development of this plan, the End-of-Life Care Research Group is commissioned (from January 2025 to January 2030) to implement the plan into practice. 

This includes: 

Process monitoring to examine how the palliative care sector refines and translates the action and transition plan into practice, and how the Flemish Government supports this process; 

Quantitative outcome monitoring at the population level to assess the quality of care, as well as the death literacy of the Flemish population; 

Qualitative outcome monitoring to explore the experienced results of the reform, using, among other methods, an innovative Most Significant Change approach; 

and Contribution analysis to link the observed results to the process, and to understand how and why specific outcomes were achieved. 

Together, these elements will provide us with a comprehensive understanding of how the reform unfolds in practice, which results or changes it achieves, and under which conditions meaningful change is produced.

Flemish Government