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To support your patients to complete Advance Care Planning, GCPHN has developed a Quality Improvement Toolkit. For more information see General Practice Quality Improvement Toolkit. Gold Coast Health has developed a suite of Advance Care Planning (ACP) videos. Listen to Mrs Jenny Hobart’s stor...
Palliative Care Queensland is holding a series of online training courses and webinars on end-of-life planning. These are tailored to health professionals who want to learn the basics of palliative care. What is Palliative Care? Palliative care is more than you think. 6th October 2022, 4:00pm-5:00pm...
Reimbursement available for successful applicants! GPs are being provided the opportunity to develop skills in palliative care via a fully funded, supervised observational placement for 2-5 days, commencing from September until November 2022. This opportunity is for registered GPs wanting to upskill...
Gold Coast Health have developed a suite of advance care planning (ACP) videos. Local GP, Dr Andrew Weissenberger, outlines his experiences with ACP when making end of life decisions with patients and their family members as a healthcare provider. Click here to view video. The video compliments the ...
Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) will be available to eligible Queenslanders from 1 January 2023. In all states, aged care facilities may decide whether to provide VAD, and what support they provide residents or patients seeking VAD. Knowing about VAD laws can help health professionals and services to...
The caring@home today launched its Palliative Care Clinic Box which contains a suite of tailored, culturally appropriate resources to support the provision of palliative care at home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Palliative Care Clinic Box contains a range of hard copy resour...
The revised Statement of Choices (Version 6) is now available. Statement of Choices is a critical component of Advance Care Planning (ACP) as it is used to record a person’s views, wishes and preferences for future health care. New tip sheets to support completion of the revised form and a guide ...
Dementia Action Week 2022 will be held from 19-25 September. Dementia impacts close to half a million Australians and almost 1.6 million Australians are involved in their care. This year’s Dementia Action Week campaign ‘a little support makes a big difference’ demonstrates that many people liv...
Saturday 29 October 2022 (8am-4.30pm) Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (virtual attendance available). Ballot for in person attendance only. Voluntary assisted dying will be available in Queensland from 1 January 2023. At the upcoming Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Implementation Confe...
The Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) funding model, starting on 1 October 2022, was a key reform in response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety Final Report. It will provide more equitable funding to residential aged care providers that aligns with the cos...
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