
At the End, What Matters most? The Kathryn Hourigan End-of-Life Project
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Where: Port Augusta Golf Club
The Palliative Care Statewide Clinical Network is dedicated to ensuring that all South Australians, along with their families, carers, and loved ones, receive the best possible end of life and palliative care experience.
Consumers, their families, and carers can access and experience the best possible end-of-life and palliative care that is focussed on individual needs, wishes, values and preferences. This is achieved by active collaboration connecting health networks, agencies, NGOs, consumers and research.
The Palliative Care Statewide Clinical Network aims to improve the way consumers, their families, and carers experience the end of life, death and beyond. We do this by:
The Steering Committees provide oversight of the development, implementation and evaluation of the networks’ activities.
The Steering Committees are constructed to reflect a balance of experience across metropolitan and country as well as from within and out of hospital sectors. The Steering Committees are led by a Statewide Clinical Network Lead.
For more information, refer to Statewide Palliative Care Clinical Network Terms of Reference (290 KB, PDF)
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Dr Peter Allcroft is a Senior Staff Specialist at Southern Adelaide Palliative Services, based at Flinders Medical Centre South Australia. He initially trained in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, completed his Masters of Palliative Care at Flinders University, and is currently undertaking a PhD at UTS, exploring the unmet palliative care needs of frail older patients with heart failure. He is actively involved with clinical teaching and research programs. He has an interest in Models of Palliative Care for patients with complex chronic medical conditions. He co-founded the Motor Neurone Disease Clinic which is based at Flinders Medical Centre, and is the Deputy Chair of the Motor Neurone Disease Association of South Australia.
Peter Allcroft |
Co-Lead, Palliative Care Clinical Care, FMC |
Alice Every |
Nursing Director, Aged Care Rehabilitation and Palliative Care, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network |
David Holden |
Medical Head of Unit, Northern Adelaide Palliative Service, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network |
Elizabeth Fallas |
Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care, Country Specialist Palliative Care Services |
Helen Stone |
State and Territory Manager SA/NT, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia |
Jessica Smith | Physiotherapist, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Palliative Care, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network |
Kate Swetenham |
Clinical Lead End of Life Care Team, Department for Health and Wellbeing |
Lesley King |
Senior Services and Sector Capacity Officer, Aged and Community Care Providers Association |
Linda Foreman |
Palliative Medicine Specialist and Consultant Adelaide Palliative Care, Central Adelaide Palliative Care Service |
Mark Harris |
Consumer/Carer Representative |
Mary Cossich |
Medical Head of Unit, SA Paediatric Palliative Care Service, Womens and Childrens Hospital |
Michaela Dempsey | Clinical Senior Occupational Therapist, Flinders Upper North Local Health Network |
Rebecca May |
RN, Neonatal Intensive Care, Womens and Childrens Hospital |
Shyla Mills |
CEO Palliative Care SA |
Sonia Schutz |
Rural General Practitioner, Palliative Care |
Sunny Traverse |
Director Residential Aged Care, Bene Aged Care |
Susan Haynes | Palliative Medicine Consultant |
Tim To |
Head of Unit, Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network |
Tracy Johnstone |
Consumer/Carer Representative |
Stephen Wales | Community Engagement Consultant, Carers SA |
The Palliative Care Statewide Clinical Network has partnered with the CEIH to develop a Palliative Care PREM for South Australia. This initiative will give patients the opportunity to provide feedback about their health experiences and outcomes, to drive improvements in care and healthcare outcomes.
This valuable feedback will help drive improvements across Palliative Care services in South Australia.
The Palliative Care Statewide Clinical Network partnered with the Department for Health and Wellbeing (DHW), to develop the Strategic Framework for Palliative Care in South Australia.
The Framework, delivered in December 2021, was developed to guide and prioritise improvements in the quality and availability of palliative care services for all South Australians.
Read more about South Australia’s Palliative Care Strategic Framework 2022 – 2027 on the SA Health website.
If you’d like to find out more about the Palliative Care Statewide Clinical Network email us at CEIHPalliativeCare@sa.gov.au.