Palliative care is holistic care aimed at relieving suffering and improving quality of life of the patients and their families that are faced with the problems of incurable, advanced diseases. By taking complete care of the patient's needs, wherever they are cared for, at home or in an institution, the aim is to adapt the care to the individual needs of the patient and the family whenever it is possible. In order to achieve this, along with the establishment of new specialist services, it is also necessary to implement the basic philosophy of palliative care in all existing services and to implement a palliative approach and general palliative care at all levels of the healthcare system. Doctors and nurses in general / family medicine clinics have an important role to play in implementing palliative approach and general palliative care. Their knowledge and commitment, as well as cooperation with specialist palliative care services, are a basic prerequisite for comprehensive, continuous and quality care of patients in need of palliative care. In order to determine the knowledge and attitudes of doctors and nurses in the field of palliative care in general practice / family medicine clinics, a study was conducted in Koprivnica-Križevci County. The study included 58 clinics and involved 44 doctors and 48 nurses, i.e. 92 participants. The questionnaire used in the research consists of three parts. The first part deals with the socio-demographic and professional characteristics of the participants. The second part of the questionnaire contains 20 questions on palliative care taken from the Palliative Care Knowledge Test (PCKT). The third part of the questionnaire used Frommelt scale of attitudes towards caring for the dying (FATCOD) in order to assess the participants' attitudes towards caring for the dying. According to the obtained results, the knowledge of doctors and nurses can be assessed as good, with a percentage of correct answers amounting to 64%. Although no statistically significant difference was found, the data suggest slightly lower knowledge among nurses compared to doctors, as well as a lower percentage of accurate answers to questions in the field of pain relief, i.e. opioid analgetics. Participants' attitudes toward caring for the dying are generally positive, while doctors have a slightly more positive attitude than nurses. Younger and middle-aged participants, as well as those who received additional training in palliative care, also have a more positive attitude. It is also interesting to note that only one third of the participants (34%) received additional training in palliative care and 96% consider it important for their daily work.