Providers welcome budget boost for palliative services
Palliative care and specialist health services in NSW will receive a $743 million funding boost over the next five years...
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HammondCare to expand in-home palliative services
HammondCare will expand its end of life services for people on home care packages under a five year palliative care...
Paramedics could fill gap in palliative care: research
More patients approaching their end of life could die comfortably at home if paramedics were better equipped to help them,...
Palliative care portal launched
A new palliative care information portal has been launched for health professionals and members of the community. Jennifer Tieman The...
Silver Chain pilots overnight palliative respite
Home and palliative care provider Silver Chain has partnered with WA Health to provide overnight respite for palliative care recipients,...
Empowering paramedics to support palliative care at home
HammondCare is sponsoring a four year study that could see paramedics play a larger role in palliative and end-of-life care...
Provider in palliative care partnership with insurer
Home care provider Home Support Services has partnered with private health insurer Bupa to deliver a home palliative care program...
NSW budget to fund 5,000 more end of life packages
An additional 5,000 End of Life Home Support packages will become available from next July as part of a $56...
Taking a broad-brush look at palliative care
Australian experts have contributed to a new book that takes a broad-brush view of palliative care as a science, clinical...
Legalising assisted dying ‘may advance’ palliative care
The nation’s peak palliative care body is reviewing its position on euthanasia and physician-assisted dying after it became legal in...
Palliative care project helps keep loved ones at home
A new community palliative care project is helping people be cared for and die at home. Most palliative care patients...
Action needed on palliative care and dementia, say peaks
Dementia Australia and Palliative Care Australia have released a joint policy statement calling for improved awareness of the specific end-of-life...