Palliative Care Australia is the peak national organisation representing the interests and aspirations of all who share the ideal of quality care at the end of life for all.

Palliative Care Australia is an incorporated body whose members are the eight state and territory palliative care associations and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine.  The membership of these associations includes palliative care service providers, clinicians, allied health professionals, academics, consumers and members of the general community.

• fostering information and networks
• promoting capacity building for specialist and generalist primary care providers and communities
• influencing the development of policy and evidence Click here to view

Palliative Care Australia is pleased to provide issue 4 of The Standard Newsletter, our national newsletter for the National Standards Assessment Program.  To view The Standard Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. To recive e-mails with the Standard Newsletter subscribe to PCA Connect.  

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Palliative Care Australia has outlined 10 key budgetary measures to achieve a better future for quality care at the end of life in Australia, to the government.  For futher information on PCA's budget submission CLICK HERE.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd convened the Australia 2020 Summit on 19 and 20 April, 2008 to help “tackle the long term challenges confronting Australia’s future.” Summit discussions focused on 10 key areas including a long-term national health strategy.

Palliative Care Australia’s submission to the Summit outlines a pathway to providing quality care at the end of life that promises to enhance access to quality care, more effectively meet the needs of patients with terminal conditions, and at the same time reduce unnecessary hospitalisations.

To read Palliative Care Australia’s submission to the Australia 2020 Summit CLICK HERE.

On 13 February 2008, Minister Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law has announced a set of new arrangements to better support Australians living with terminal illness.  A new Bill introduced into Parliament will relieve the financial burden of terminal illness by allowing people with terminal conditions to access tax free superannuation lump sums.

Palliative Care Australia has participated in the consultation process for the Bill which will improve quality care at the end of life for all Australians.

To read the Minister's press release CLICK HERE.

Since their introduction in the mid 1970s syringe drivers have provided symptom control via subcutaneous infusions of drugs to treat unrelieved pain and other distressing symptoms when other routes are inappropriate or no longer effective.  The Graseby MS16A (introduced in 1976) and MS26 (introduced in 1983) syringe drivers have been a mainstay of palliative care provision across Australia for more than twenty years.

Following the withdrawal from sale of the Graseby syringe drivers, Palliative Care Australia in collaboration with the Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education have prepared this report to help inform the palliative care and aged care sectors about alternative devices that are available to the Australian market.

To access the full report CLICK HERE

To access Appendix 1 – the manufacturers’ responses to the criteria defined by the aged care and palliative care sectors CLICK HERE

 

    

 

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