National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List launches in time for Palliative Care Week
The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care has supported caring@home to develop a core medicines list applicable across all Australian States and Territories.
The new National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List has been created to support standardised, quality palliative care by improving access to medicines in the community.
Key details
Palliative care patients need timely access to symptom control medicines to avoid unnecessary suffering or unwanted transfers to inpatient facilities.
The new National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List identifies 4 medicines for use with home-based palliative patients in the terminal phase who require urgent symptom relief.
Most common terminal phase symptoms in uncomplicated palliative care patients can be optimally managed using medicines from the List.
View and download the National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List.
More information is available on the caring@home website.
Palliative care education
Brisbane South PHN partners with Metro South Health to deliver educational sessions to General Practitioners on the topic of palliative care. The sessions aim to improve knowledge, confidence and skills regarding personalised palliative and end-of-life care, and include discussions on voluntary assisted dying and advance care planning.
To participate, please contact us at agedcare@bsphn.org.au.