Strengthening palliative mobile teams - Strengthening the competence of health personnel to ensure quality of care

The Ministry of Health has provided the Maribor University Medical Centre with a new car to support the work of the mobile palliative team - specialized unit for providing comprehensive palliative care for patients and their relatives in the home environment.

With the new acquisition, the Maribor University Medical Centre will be able to reduce the additional and often unnecessary transports to the hospital for the most vulnerable patients in the city. In this way, they will be able to alleviate the difficulties that terminally ill people face at the end of their lives in the environment where they live or at their home, and thus help preserve the human dignity of patients until the last day of life, and stand by their relatives even after the loss of loved ones.

This is just one of the eight palliative mobile teams that will be created or strengthened in Slovenia, increasing their number from six to 14.  

The project plans to procure the necessary equipment and conduct training for a total of up to 14 palliative mobile teams for specialized palliative care at home. Mobile teams are expected to work within hospitals or other public health institutions. The purpose of the investment is to ensure the best possible quality of life for patients with progressive incurable diseases and to offer support to their relatives during the patient's illness and after death.

The Recovery and Resilience Facility provides funding of EUR 2 million, with the total value of the investment estimated at EUR 2.4 million.

The investment started in January 2022 and will be finalised by mid-2026.