Promoting Partnerships in Palliative Care Services in Victoria
What helps to create continuity of care for people with a life threatening
illness? This will be the focus of a new project called Promoting Partnerships
in Palliative Care. This Commonwealth funded project will provide specific
recommendations about how to strengthen the hospital-community interface
in palliative care.
The project will focus on the interface between community based and inpatient
palliative care services with mainstream inpatient acute services and
will:
- engage community and inpatient palliative care services, oncology
and consultancy services, general practitioners and the wider health
service system in a consultative process; and
- identify and recommend
the key service elements and practices that will enhance the interface
between community and inpatient palliative care services.
PPR Consulting have been appointed to conduct the project, which will
include examination of the literature and consultations with key stakeholders.
The consultations will help to identify where the hospital-community
relationship is working well and what makes it successful. The project
is due for completion in June 2004.
Working Party
The working party for the project is drawn from inpatient and community
based palliative care providers. Members are:
Vivien Adler (Chair) |
Manager |
Continuity, Programs Branch, DHS |
Beverley Armstrong |
Executive Officer |
Peninsula Hospice |
Amanda Bolleter |
Project Officer |
Continuity, Programs Branch, DHS |
Dr Barbara Hayes |
Palliative Care Physician |
Northern Health |
Sean Lynch |
Assistant Director |
Population Health Section
Victorian State Office
Department of Health & Ageing |
| Dr Richard McClelland |
General Practitioner |
Oakhill Clinic |
| Prof. Brendan Murphy |
Director of Medical and Emergency Services |
St Vincemt's Hospital |
Gabrielle O'Connor |
Palliative Care Nurse Consultant |
Monash Medical Centre, Southern Health |
Mary Stapleton |
Manager, Aged Care and Mental Health |
Hume Region, DHS |
Anne Zappulla |
Executive Officer |
Loddon Mallee Palliative Care Service |
The working party will provide information, advice and knowledge to
assist with the project as well as monitoring project progress and assessing
the adequacy of the final report.
Consultation
Existing community based and inpatient palliative care services will
be surveyed to identify service models and key elements of services that
deliver effective and efficient partnership-based care across community
and inpatient service systems. Following this, workshops will be conducted
across the State with key stakeholders to identify and assess current
practices, client outcomes, potential improvements in service delivery
and client outcome, and strategies to deliver these improved services
and outcomes.
Terms of Reference
Download Terms of Reference as pdf  (36kb)
Meetings
Meetings of the working party will be held at key points in the project
until the conclusion of the project in June 2004.
For more information, contact Amanda Bolleter at Amanda.Bolleter@dhs.vic.gov.au
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