Rural Palliative Care 

Making palliative care support and services available in rural and remote communities

About the Program (  Factsheet)

The World Health Organisation defines palliative care as “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.

Resources and Links

•   Factsheet
•   Templates - under the Aged Care section
•   Palliative Care Australia
•   Care Search | GP Page | Nurses Hub 
•   eviQ - Login Page - online service of the Cancer Institute NSW. You can register for access from this page (includes opioid conversion calculator)
•   Commonwealth Carers Resource Centre (CCRC) - added Feb 2011
•   Respecting Patient Choices Program - added Feb 2011
•   The Centre for Grief Education - added Feb 2011
•   The Cancer Learning Rural and Remote - added April 2011
•   RDGP Referrals Pathway
•   Therapeutic Guidelines
•   NPS
•   The NSW Medicines Information Centre

Articles

•   Palliative and Dementia Care 
•   Caring for old Australians interim draft report - Jan 2011
•   Update National Paliative Care Strategy - available to download from this page

Forms

•   Kanofsky Scale
•   Problem Severity Score
•   Symptom Assessment Scale

Medicare

•   Medicare Item Numbers - Medicare Online Search

Policies

•   NSW Strategic Framework for Palliative Care 2010-2013
  
    

Contact

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