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to SMRPCC website
The Southern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium
is an alliance of palliative care service providers
that aims to support improvements in the integration and coordination
of palliative care services. The Consortium includes services
that work in the community (caring for people in their
homes), in acute settings (caring for people
in hospital) and in inpatient settings (hospices and palliative
care units).
Palliative care is care provided to people of
all ages who have a life limiting illness, with little or no
prospect of cure, and for whom the primary treatment goal is
quality of life.
Standards for Providing Quality Palliative
Care for all Australians. Palliative
Care Australia 2005
If you are a health care professional, a client, carer, volunteer
or perhaps you simply want to know more about palliative care,
this site has information about services
in the region how they can be accessed.
LATEST NEWS
Link Nurse Network across the Region
We are planning to establish a Palliative Care Link Nurse Network in Aged Care Facilities across the Southern Region.
The key to the Link Nurse role is the ability to act as a resource and influence change within the organisation. As defined in the Palliative Approach (PA) Toolkit, the Link Nurse ‘agrees to take on a special role, promoting and facilitating a palliative approach within the RACF.’
As part of the Aged Care project the SMRPCC, through the Palliative Care Specialist Providers, will be providing education for staff from ACF’s who wish to undertake the role of Link Nurse within that facility.
We are now inviting expressions of interest from ACF manageme ...[Go to full story]
Other news items
• Link Nurse Network across the Region
• PCNA Conference 2012 - Call for Abstracts
• Palliative Care Professional Development for All Health Professionals 2012
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Coming Events
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Palliative Care Cultural Diversity Forum
Monday, 21 May 2012
The forum will provide opportunities to feedback on the work undertaken so far on the Draft Palliative Care Cultural Diversity Strategy and to workshop key strategies, actions and associated priorities with reference to the findings and recommendations ...[more]
Victorian Aboriginal Health Conference 2012
Thursday, 24 May 2012
to Friday, 25 May 2012
This conference will showcase work that is helping to close the health gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Victorians ...[more]
Cultural Diversity in Ageing 2012 Conference
Thursday, 7 June 2012
to Friday, 8 June 2012
Stories to Inspire ...[more]
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Latest Documents
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Community of Practice Forum
| SMRPCC Aged Care Newsletter, Issue 5
| SMRPCC Aged Care Newsletter Issue 4
| SMRPCC Aged Care Newsletter Issue 3
| Promoting Quality of Life - Speakers Kit
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