As this column is being written, Spain has just offloaded to the financial markets almost ?10bn of short-term sovereign debt, at the cheapest rates for the many months since the present economic crisis began, and this is being heralded as a vote of confidence in the new Prime Minister's efforts to manage a programme of protracted public expenditure and fiscal austerity. As the markets move, politicians revise their spending commitments, always with one eye on the ballot box; correspondingly, health-care practitioners, whether in the public or non-statutory sector, review the care packages they can provide, always with both eyes on maximizing the patient experience and minimizing families' distress. This month, Web Words examines sites concerned with palliative care provision in and involving Spain, and the macro-political milieu.
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