This organisation of Norwegian palliative care
is in line with the recommendation of the
European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC,
2009; 2010) to have at least two different levels
of palliative care provision and potentially three:
a palliative care approach; general palliative care
in non-specialist services, e.g. district nursing
services or general hospital units; and specialist
palliative care, e.g. home palliative care teams or
inpatient palliative care units or homes. In
Norway, the recommendations from the EAPC