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The vision of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care is better health and wellbeing for all Australians. We work with a range of stakeholders in driving health, aged care, and sporting outcome reform through evidence-based policy, well targeted programs, and best practice regulation.
To support the delivery of palliative care in Australia, the Australian Government funds organisations to produce resources and deliver education and training courses.
Palliative care training can increase your knowledge, skills and confidence to communicate with and care for people who have a life-limiting illness.
For more information and links to access courses and resources to build your skills. visit health.gov.au/palliative-care-education.
SA Health’s Palliative Care Connect is a statewide service that provides information and links to palliative care and bereavement supports in South Australia.
Palliative Care Navigators are available via a phone line to assist people with life-limiting illnesses, their family members, friends, and carers, as well as aged care, and healthcare professionals. Palliative Care Connect serves as a link between primary health networks, specialist palliative care services, and community-based organisations, ensuring a seamless network of care provision that can also empower individuals to make choices aligned with their culture and preferences.
To speak to a Palliative Care Navigator, please call 1-800-725-548 (PALLI8), available Monday to Friday from 8.30 am to 4.00 pm. Voicemail is available afterhours for a call back the following business day.
Other Palliative Care Connect services include specific palliative care navigation services for Aboriginal people and those living in regional areas; statewide bereavement navigation and supports, a consumer-friendly website (www.palliativecareconnect.com.au), and palliative care volunteer coordination through the Palliative Care Volunteering SA project.
We invite you to access and refer patients, residents, family members, carers and anyone who may benefit from information and support with palliative care and bereavement to Palliative Care Connect.
Palliative Care Connect is funded by the Australian Government through the South Australian Palliative Care Navigation Pilot program.
caring@home aims to increase access to quality and timely end-of-life care for patients who choose to be cared for, and die at home, if possible.
caring@home develops and provides nationally consistent, practical and evidence-based clinical resources and education for health professionals. This supports:
- proactive planning for end-of-life care
- families and carers to help manage end-of-life symptoms at home
- patients to be cared for in the place of their choice.
caring@home resources are free and applicable Australia-wide for clinical services, health professionals, and families and carers.
caring@home is funded by the Australian Government and led by the Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative.
Palliative Care Australia (PCA) is the national peak body for palliative care.
Palliative Care Australia represents all those who work towards high quality palliative care for all Australians who need it. Working closely with consumers, our Member Organisations and the palliative care workforce, we aim to improve access to, and promote the need for, palliative care.
PCA believes high quality palliative care should be available and accessible to people living with a life-limiting illness when and where they need it. PCA supports the health, aged care and community sector workforce who all have a role in providing palliative care to people with a life-limiting illness and supporting carers and loved ones.
PCA support the work of specialist palliative care teams who provide care and support for people with more complex symptoms and who educate and support other professionals in their care of people with life-limiting illness.
PCOC aims to improve palliative care patient and carer outcomes. The PCOC program is a mature and well-established collaborative.
Every patient has the right to effective treatment and management of symptoms and problems. PCOC uses five clinical assessment tools to help identify and manage common symptoms and problems. The tools allow for the effectiveness of treatments to be evaluated and, importantly, they help patients, and their carers and families to communicate their needs.
The embedding of these tools into routine practice is core to PCOC. Every service that participates in PCOC has access to an education program and tailored improvement support. Services that use PCOC also have a common language. This supports quick, standardised and good communication between service providers.
Nurses play a vital role in evaluating care and driving improvement in outcomes. PCOC holds information on more than 250,000 people. This information is used to assess the effectiveness of palliative care over the last decade.
Access to reliable information is crucial for those providing or receiving palliative care. CareSearch, a free website, consolidates palliative care and end-of-life information and resources to support health professionals, individuals in need of palliative care, their families, and wider community. By facilitating access to knowledge, CareSearch (including palliAGED) endeavours to empower individuals in their decision-making processes and promote evidence-based, person-centred care.
Caresearch is funded by the Dept of Health and Aged Care and sits within the Flinders Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying (RePaDD) whose mission is to make a difference to care at the end of life.
Palliative Care Victoria is the peak body for palliative care and end of life care. Established in 1981, we are an incorporated association and charity supported by the Victorian Government, organisation and individual members, other groups and funders.
A founding and current member of Palliative Care Australia, we also contribute to national policies and initiatives in collaboration with the other state and territory palliative care peak bodies.
We work across all sectors of the community and health services in Victoria, to work towards our vision that all Victorians with a life limiting condition can live die and grieve well. https://www.pallcarevic.asn.au/.
The Queensland Government proudly supports the 2024 Palliative Care Nurses Australia Biennial Conference.
The Queensland Government is investing $171 million by 2025-26 to strengthen palliative care across Queensland. The investment of this funding is being driven by the Queensland Health Palliative and End-of-Life Care Strategy, that sets the strategic direction and the Queensland Health Specialist Palliative Care Workforce Plan to build and develop the specialist palliative care workforce.
Funding will be used to expand and strengthen palliative care services for all Queenslanders, including supporting the health and wellbeing of First Nations people and their families during their end-of-life journey.
The Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) and Indigenous Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (IPEPA) form part of the Palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative. As a national palliative care project, this Collaborative takes a strategic approach to education and training of the health workforce and delivers programs for priority health care provider groups across primary, secondary and tertiary settings.
Specifically, PEPA aims to enhance the capacity of health professionals to deliver a palliative care approach through their participation in either clinical placements in specialist palliative care services or interactive workshops. This program provides an ideal opportunity to learn from experienced specialist staff to enhance skills, knowledge and experience in the palliative approach.
Informed by community, for community, IPEPA is a grassroots approach to breaking down the barriers to palliative care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia, embedding Australian Indigenous knowledges across all of our resources, and facilitating two-way learning.
PEPA and IPEPA are being implemented in all Australian states and territories and applicants from rural and remote areas are encouraged to apply. Visit our website at www.pepaeducation.com to find out more.
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The Quality of Care Collaborative Australia (QuoCCA) project delivers paediatric palliative care education to health and education professionals and communities in urban, regional and remote areas who may care for children and young people with palliative and end-of-life care needs.
Education can be general in nature or tailored specifically to the needs of a health care team around a current case. The QuoCCA website (www.quocca.com.au) also houses education resources for health professionals to support clinical practice. This includes a range of helpful videos, on-line modules and links to further information.
The QuoCCA project activities have been made possible through funding provided by the Department of Health and Aged Care, through the National Palliative Care Projects initiative.
Link
www.quocca.com.au
Funding is supported by a collaboration between Children’s Health Queensland and the Office of First Nation’s Health.
The goal of this collaboration is to assist the paediatric palliative care service in Queensland to identify cultural needs, respond to these needs safely, and help children and families connect with both community and country.
Call on Clare has been a trusted provider of in-home palliative nursing and support worker care in Melbourne since 2009.
We have a palliative approach to care, ” When caring matters most” with our specialised In home palliative care nursing team.
Working in conjunction with the Community Palliative Care Teams and other health care professionals we offer clients and families the support they need to ensure they get the best standard of care.
Call on Clare offers a variety of in home needs specialising in patient transport, attending medical appointments, support through Day Surgery and treatments, Post Operative Care and case management. Now we offer a Palliative Care nursing service (24 hr availability) which provides a holistic approach, preserving dignity and choice, and ensuring the highest quality care.
Please call for more information, advice or to arrange a service:
Call: 03 9001 9762
www.callonclare.com.au
