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Webinar: Healthy End of Life Planning and Pro-active end-of-life care and prescribing

Thu 10th April @ 7:00 pm

General Practitioners, Practice Nurses and Aged Care Workers are invited to a webinar on the Healthy End of Life Planning (HELP) App developed by La Trobe University and caring@home’s Prompts for End-of-Life Planning (PELP) Framework, National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List and palliMEDS app.

DATE:
Thu 10th April


TIME:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm


PROGRAM:

Healthy End of Life Planning (HELP):  Staying connected and accessing support from informal care networks is essential as we age and reach the end of life. The HELP app is part of an evidence based palliative care social prescribing model that is activating these support networks across Australia. This session will explore how health professionals can support this essential aspect of care as part of routine practice.

Pro-active end-of-life care: caring@home has developed a framework to support GPs to provide quality, person-centred care that aligns with the patient’s preferences – The Prompts for End-of-Life (PELP) framework.  This framework identifies four clinical end of life processes including:

  • Advance care planning and person-centred care based on need (at risk of dying)
  • Transition of focus of care needs from restorative to palliative (likely to die soon)
  • Terminal care needs (dying)
  • After death care (bereavement).

GPs also need to be adept in providing effective symptom control to patients in their last weeks of life.  The palliMEDS app support GPs to provide optimal symptom management to their patients in the community.

A subset of this list the is the National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List which identifies four medicines for use by home-based palliative patients in the terminal phase who require urgent symptom relief.

SPEAKERS:

Prof Liz Reymond MBBS(Hons), PhD, FRACGP, FAChPM – Professor Reymond is Director of the national caring@home project.  She is  Co-Director of the Queensland Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning and PallConsult clinician support service. Liz offers education and training on end-of-life care to members of the community and clinicians across Queensland.

Niki Read, Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University – Niki Read from the Public Health Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe University will outline the HELP Social Prescribing Service Model and present the latest research showing real benefits of network-centered-care at end of life.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

General Practitioners, Primary Care Nurses, Aged Care Workers

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
  • Describe the benefits of Healthy End of Life Planning (HELP)
  • Describe the concept of palliative care social prescribing
  • Implement a framework of palliative care to support timely planning and high-quality care for patients with a life-limiting illness
  • Use the palliMEDS app to support prescribing for common symptoms in the terminal phase
  • Identify 4 core palliative care medicines to support access to medicines in the community for urgent situations.
COST:
There is no cost for GPs, Practice Nurses and Aged Care Workers within the SNHN region to attend this training


ENQUIRIES:

Judy or Robi, Education Coordinators – 9432 8250 or events@snhn.org.au.



REGISTER FOR WEBINAR:
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