Summary Aim of the study: to assess the need for palliative care services in care hospital and to examine the possibilities of satisfying patients need for palliative care. Objectives: 1.) to analize patients applying for services according to social, demographic and medical factors; 2.) to assess patients relatives oppinion about the quality of received services; 3.) to analise financial side of applied services and to realistically assess costs of services; 4.) to compare recourses granted by government with actual costs of services 5.) to analize the possibilities of applying palliative care services in palliative care hospital. Methods: the research was executed with the help of qualitive and quantitive methods in few stages: I. patients applying for services were analised according to social, demographic and medical factors using data from KCH registering books of year 2001- 2003. II. Patient's relatives oppinion about the palliative care and quality of received services were analised. The relatives of patients in last stages of oncological and neuromothorical illnesses received questionnaires concerning this research. Research was executed 2004 July - December. 46 questionnaires were distributed. The response rate – 95,7%. The biggest part of respondens were women (61,4%). Data analysis was performed with the help of the statistical package SPSS 10.03. Statistical procedures: chi- square's test c2, the degree of freedom (df) and statistical value (p). The results... [to full text]