The Member States should provide support, as a matter of priority, for the establishment of home palliative care units, and devise and implement advanced training systems to help raise the educational level of those working in the eldercare system.

At the very front, at the fighting edge, in your example, a patrol that would leave a forward operating base outside the wire is a company with at least one medic per platoon as well as a number of soldiers, at a ratio of one to ten, who have advanced tactical combat care training or advanced first aid.

Cross-border cooperation can only lead to results if a number of conditions are met, if the greatest care is taken over appropriate, goal-directed programmes for ongoing training, if attention is paid to training regarding the Member States’ response to crisis situations in third countries and if exchanges and secondments are made possible in a professional way, with the emphasis on the professional aspect.

The Commission, in its working paper "Guidelines for Community action in the field of education and training", provides several pointers for possible action in the years ahead: "First of all, simplification and rationalisation of instruments, .The Commission's idea is to regroup activities around the current programmes (EUROTECNET, FORCE, PETRA and IRIS) in a single action covering initial training, continuing training and advanced training simultaneously, and structured into three separate strands: a network of European resource cent ...[+++]res providing an interface between national and regional actions and those carried out at the Community level; joint projects to collect and disseminate innovations in training and and to develop pilot products; lastly, a strand comprising analyses, comparative research, compiling information, etc.

2. The Council stresses that special account should be taken of trends becoming increasingly important in the 1990s, in particular: (a) the crucial importance of vocational education and training in the context of developing new technologies, changed forms of decentralized work organization and new working methods; in this connection, educational strategies which integrate general learning and practical training, should be encouraged; (b) the links between the broad-based, basic vocational training provision and vocational in-service training and further training provision designed to give employees the opportunity of training througho ...[+++]ut their working career; (c) the reduction of barriers to mobility and the maintenance of flexibility among the workforce, by means of a broad-based effort regarding supplementary and further vocational training; (d) the introduction of new technologies, giving rise to the need for Member States to encourage the development of new qualifications and expanded training programmes dealing with technological transfer and adaptation to industrial change; (e) the promotion of a greater emphasis on training as an important part of companies' corporate strategies.

PROJECT UK 305: INFORMATICS AND ENGINEERING TRAINING IN WEST LONDON Contractor: West London Training and Enterprise Council Policy and Research Division United Kingdom Partners: Technology Centre Limburg (NL) North West College Derry (IRL) KLM Amsterdam (NL) Aim/objective: The aim of the West London Training and Enterprise Council strategy is to provide new impetus for supporting enterprises and training at local level. This includes the development of a range of technological, commercial and management assistance services for companies specialising in information technologies and engineering, to enable the development of training leadin ...[+++]g to a number of qualifications, to facilitate access to all levels of training in information technology and engineering and to improve basic skills and qualifications in these two sectors. Activities: Transfer of innovative training models and resources. Cooperation in the organisation of joint activities (training programmes/courses in advanced technologies).