Palliative Care

Pal­lia­tive Care Expe­ri­ence Sur­vey 2020

We are devel­op­ing a Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Ser­vices Plan for 2021 – 2026 and would like to hear your expe­ri­ences as:

• a patient who has been receiv­ing pal­lia­tive care in 2020
• an unpaid car­er who has pro­vid­ed pal­lia­tive care in 2020
• a health pro­fes­sion­al or vol­un­teer who has pro­vid­ed pal­lia­tive care in 2020.

The sur­vey should take no longer than 10 – 15 min­utes and your respons­es will be anonymous.

Please share your expe­ri­ences here.

COVID-19

Pro­vid­ing end-of-life care can be made more dif­fi­cult dur­ing this time, and SA Health pro­vides guid­ance to best man­age patients and sup­port their families.

For more infor­ma­tion vis­it SA Health.

Pal­lia­tive Care COVID-19 Response Group

A statewide Pal­lia­tive Care COVID-19 Response Group com­pris­ing clin­i­cians across the pub­lic and pri­vate health sys­tems was estab­lished. The response group pro­vid­ed means to raise, dis­cuss, esca­late and resolve pal­lia­tive care issues impact­ed by COVID-19. The group con­sid­ered patient, com­mu­ni­ty and staff wel­fare in the pro­vi­sion of pal­lia­tive care.

The report from the Pal­lia­tive Care COVID-19 Response Group high­lights the ini­tia­tives under­tak­en for the pro­vi­sion of pal­lia­tive care for ter­mi­nal­ly ill COVID-19 patients and their fam­i­lies, and the ongo­ing pro­vi­sion of safe pre-exist­ing pal­lia­tive care ser­vice deliv­ery in the acute and com­mu­ni­ty settings.

Read the Report from the Pal­lia­tive Care COVID-19 Response Group (156 KB, PDF)

Goals 

We’re com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing the best pal­lia­tive care ser­vice to patients, car­ers and the wider com­mu­ni­ty. We will accom­plish this through part­ner­ing with a range of con­sumers, ser­vices and health work­ers across a range of sectors.

We’ll deliv­er bet­ter pal­lia­tive care through:

• increas­ing aware­ness of advanced care planning;
• devel­op­ing bet­ter health lit­er­a­cy in the community;
• col­lab­o­rat­ing to improve data col­lec­tion; and
• mea­sur­ing, mon­i­tor­ing and reporting.

Read the Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work Vision and Aims (64 KB, PDF).

Pal­lia­tive Care 2020 Grants Program

The Pal­lia­tive Care 2020 Grants Pro­gram will help improve access to and diver­si­fy qual­i­ty pal­lia­tive care ser­vices for pri­or­i­ty pop­u­la­tions as well as South Aus­tralians liv­ing in res­i­den­tial aged care facilities.

For more infor­ma­tion about the Pal­lia­tive Care 2020 Grants Pro­gram vis­it SA Health.