Palliative Care Project

The Rural Palliative Care Project aims to improve palliative care for patients in rural areas in southern Tasmania.

The main objectives of the project are:

• Enhance rural communities’ access to quality coordinated palliative care.

• Promote Palliative care planning and improving remuneration for enhanced care planning through MBS items.

• Promote of early referral of palliative patients and discussions with in a multi disciplinary team, to specialist Palliative care services.

• Enhance common understandings of models of rural palliative care services.

• Strengthen links between dedicated palliative care teams, general practice and mainstream service providers and taking into account the broader consumer & community interests. 

• Improve community & professional awareness & understanding of a professional commitment to the role of palliative care practices in supporting the care needs of people who are dying & their families.

Resources

• Project Brochure and Presentation

• Definitions and MBS Items  ^{May 2010 Update}

• MBS Items for Palliative Care  ^{May 2010}

• Advance Care Planning:  Statement of wishes form   

• Four Corners Program "a Good Death"  screened Feb 2010 

• Walking with Grief Support group 

• Care Model

• Carers Australia

• Case Conferencing Palliative Care  ^{May 2010}

• Gold Standards Framework Anticipatory Prescribing for Crisis Management

• Until the Chemist Opens - Palliation from the Doctors Bag 

• DHHS Information

  • Patients, Carers and families fact sheets

  • Health Providers  - Formulary Adult Palliative Care   Referral

• Enduring Guardianship form and information

• Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement 

• Advance Care Planning

• Palliative Care Australia  

• National Palliative Care Search Directory  

• Palliative Care Australia - Media Release - Australians Dying Badly  

• Living Caring Working - Information for people who live with, care for, or work with someone with a terminal illness.

• CareSearch

• Opioid Converter -Eastern Metropolitan Palliative Care Consortium (Victoria) 

• Online Skills Training to support Needs Based Cancer Care 

• Needs Assessment Tool Template for MD Template