Palliative care consortia bring together senior management representatives and clinicians from all healthcare services funded to provide specialist palliative care, focusing on delivering and developing palliative care services.
Palliative care consortia support palliative care providers within their designated catchment to:
- raise awareness of palliative care amongst health care providers, ancillary services, community groups and organisations including residential facilities
- foster collaboration amongst service providers to maximize designated palliative care resources, reduce duplication of effort and promote consistency of practice
- promote end of life and palliative care education and training
- inform improvements to practice through their Clinical Advisory Group and broader clinical engagement activities, including liaison with Safer Care Victoria’s Palliative Care Clinical Network
- advise the department about regional priorities for future service development and funding.
Consortiums are required to provide an annual report to the Department of Health and Human Services at the completion of each financial year.
More information about each regional consortium, including their annual reports, can be found on their individual websites.
Contact details
Barwon South Western Regional Palliative Care Consortium
Anna Dowd
Tel: 0403 258 534
Email: anna.dowd@barwonhealth.org.au
Eastern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium
Sarah Kleinitz
Tel: 0413 264 214
Email: consortiummanager@epc.asn.au
Gippsland Regional Palliative Care Consortium
Anny Byrne
Tel: (03) 5623 0684
Email: anny.byrne@wghg.com.au
Grampians Regional Palliative Care Consortium
Anna Gray
Tel: 0428 171 341
Email: GRPCC.gpalcareconsort@gmail.com
Hume Regional Palliative Care Consortium
Sarah Finlayson
Tel: 0417 780 684
Email: Sarah.Finlayson@gvhealth.org.au
Loddon Mallee Regional Palliative Care Consortium
Adam Rutyna
Tel: 0447 526 626
Email: arutyna@bendigohealth.org.au
North and West Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium
Kathleen Menzies
Tel: (03) 9977 0026
Email: kmenzies@mcm.org.au
Southern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium
Tanja Bahro
Tel: 0418 584 106
Email: tanja.bahro@smrpcc.org.au
Memorandum of understanding
Palliative Care Consortium MOU
doc 67 KB
Palliative Care Consortium MOU
pdf 46.19 KB
Role statements
Palliative care consortium
pdf 126.56 KB
Palliative care consortium chair
pdf 108.5 KB
Palliative care consortium manager
pdf 126.74 KB
Palliative care consortium fundholder
pdf 128.14 KB
Palliative care consortium executive
pdf 101.74 KB
Palliative care consortium individual members - voting
pdf 113.29 KB
Palliative care consortium individual members - non voting
pdf 111.6 KB
Palliative care consortium project lead agency
pdf 111.12 KB
Palliative care consortium clinical / practitioners group
pdf 78.91 KB
Palliative care consortium managers group
pdf 101.78 KB
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