Christian Medical College Vellore is a tertiary teaching hospital with 3,844 beds, across several campuses. The Department of Palliative Medicine provides outpatient, inpatient (acute care and consultation services), home care services and hospice care (Ida B.Scudder Hospice). 
The department offers postgraduate training in Palliative Medicine (3 year course, Diplomate of National Board, and a one-year residential Certificate Course in Palliative Medicine.  
The department is actively involved in teaching palliative care to undergraduate medical students and postgraduate medical residents from other specialties Family Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery, Gynae Oncology, posted in the Department of Palliative Medicine on rotation.  The nursing faculty also train the nursing students in palliative care nursing.

Used in the primary palliative care setting within the hospital and community setting.

75 bedded inpatient hospice with home care and hospital out-reach services and two link centres.
Teaching programmes for doctors, nurses and MSWs
Involved with the training of rural doctors / nurses. and also with the Cancer Treatment Centre initiative (Lien Foundation and AIIMS)
Suprvise MSc, PhD students and those interested in Masters for Public Health

Only just started but looks interesting.
Will provide more feedback in due course,

Educational links to
– Cardiff University Palliative Care Department
– NIMHANS (National Institute for Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, India)
Involved with National initiatives:
– ELICIT (End of Life Care,India, Task-force)
– Project India
National Task Force for the Integration of Palliative care with health delivery, in the community

A range of preventive health care including free screening for diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity and chronic kidney disease in a rural community, free medicines and regular follow up for people with end organ damage.

Planning to start using SPICT for palliative care in a rural health programme