Association of Palliative Care Social Workers (UK): http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/NPA/socialworkers/index.asp

Not a terribly useful site, I’m afraid; not all the documents they have produced are on the site; it appears unfinished.

Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, Social Worker/Counsellors Interest Group: http://www.chpca.net/interest_groups/social_workers-counsellors.htm

National Association of Social Workers (USA): Web page on end-of-life care: Carehttp://www.socialworkers.org/research/naswResearch/EndofLifeCare/default.asp

National Association of Social Workers (USA): NASW Standards for Social Work Practice in Palliative and End of Life: http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/bereavement/standards/default.asp

These standards are the only published standards of practice for palliative care social workers that I am aware of, and are a good summary of social work roles, albeit in the US context.

National Association of Social Workers (USA): Web-based courses on cancer care-giving, the social worker’s role and end-of-life care, the social worker’s role (members only): http://www.naswwebed.org/

Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network (USA): http://www.swhpn.org/