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South Australia’s Pal­lia­tive Care Strate­gic Frame­work 2022 – 2027

The Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work Steer­ing Com­mit­tee is proud to share South Aus­trali­a’s Pal­lia­tive Care Strate­gic Frame­work 2022 – 2027.

The Frame­work was devel­oped by SA Health in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work Steer­ing Com­mit­tee and pal­lia­tive care stake­hold­ers from across our community.

This pro­vides the blue­print for the state ser­vices plan for pal­lia­tive care, from pri­ma­ry care in the com­mu­ni­ty to spe­cial­ist pal­lia­tive care. Good pal­lia­tive care aims to improve the qual­i­ty of life for those with a life lim­it­ing ill­ness. As our pop­u­la­tion ages there is an increas­ing num­ber of peo­ple liv­ing with chron­ic con­di­tions, frailty, demen­tia or a can­cer diag­no­sis.

Key ini­tial focus areas for the Net­work and stake­hold­ers are the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of a:

• Pal­lia­tive Care Ser­vices Plan
• Co-designed statewide Pal­lia­tive Care mod­el of care
• Sys­tem wide approach to the col­lec­tion, mon­i­tor­ing and report­ing of data relat­ing to pal­lia­tive care

Hear from Dr Peter All­croft and Kathryn Houri­g­an about the Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Clin­i­cal Network

The Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work is the first net­work to imple­ment a co-lead­er­ship struc­ture. This sees both a clin­i­cal and con­sumer rep­re­sen­ta­tive join forces to lead the network.

Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Net­work 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.

Addi­tion­al Doc­u­ments and Information

Doc­u­ments

• Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work Terms of Ref­er­ence (290 KB, PDF)

Resources

• Aus­tralian Death Noti­fi­ca­tion Services
• End of Life Essentials
• The Aus­tralian & New Zealand Soci­ety of Pal­lia­tive Med­i­cine Inc
• GriefLink
• Pal­lia­tive Care SA
• pal­liAGED
• Care­search

Nation­al Pal­lia­tive Care Week 2022

The theme of Pal­lia­tive Care Week 2022 is ​“It’s your right”, to raise aware­ness for all Aus­tralians that they have a right to the best pal­lia­tive care ser­vices when and where they need it.

For many, the thought of pal­lia­tive care rais­es con­cerns and fears about what to expect and where to seek guid­ance and sup­port, whilst main­tain­ing hope that symp­toms can be man­aged and dig­ni­ty maintained.

Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Net­work Co-Leads, Kathryn Houri­g­an and Dr Peter All­croft have devel­oped a series of videos that aim to increase com­mu­ni­ty aware­ness of pal­lia­tive care, dis­cussing some of the dif­fi­cult con­cerns and bust­ing sev­er­al myths.

To watch this series, see Rais­ing aware­ness and bust­ing myths about pal­lia­tive care.

Have a question?

Or want to know more about the Statewide Pal­lia­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work?
Please email CEIHPalliativeCare@​sa.​gov.​au.