The Metro South Palliative Care Service (MSPCS) incorporates:

• a community service to the geographical area encompassing:
  • Brisbane suburbs south of the river (excluding the suburbs surrounding St. Vincent's Hospital-Kangaroo Point)
  • Logan City and Beaudesert
  • Bayside suburbs of Redland City south of Cleveland (including the Bay Islands)
• in-reach medical consultancy to Logan, Redland, Princess Alexandra and QEII hospitals within the Metro South geographical boundaries
• inpatient public palliative care beds at Canossa Private Hospital, QEII, Logan, Beaudesert and Redland Hospitals and Wynnum Manly Palliative Care Unit
• in-reach consultancy palliative care service to Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF's) within Metro South Health.

The MSPCS provides a specialist palliative care service with consultancy, shared and direct care elements that works in collaboration with primary and tertiary care providers to enhance quality end-of-life care and ease the suffering of people diagnosed with advanced progressing life-limiting conditions. MSPCS comprises multidisciplinary teams that provide face-to-face, telephone and telehealth consultations.

Services provided include:

• pain and symptom management
• end-of-life care
• equipment advice
• palliative care education
• practical support for patients and family to enable them to access relevant community resources
• emotional support for patients, family and friends registered with MSPCS
• access to grief and bereavement support for patients, family and friends registered with the service
• facilitation of transition between hospital and community care
• 24-hour telephone on-call service for patients registered with MSPCS.

The RACF service covers:

• complex pain and symptom management advice
• complex end-of-life care advice
• complex psychosocial issues advice
• advance care planning and palliative care case conferencing advice.

Referral information

Resource links

Information for patients, carers, families and health professionals

• Understanding Palliative Care. A 40min informative DVD on palliative care - Palliative Care Queensland
• About Palliative Care. A 4min clip personal story about palliative care - Palliative Care Victoria
• Resource website about palliative care for patients, carers, families and health professionals - CareSearch
• Palliative Approach Toolkit: Website resources for residential aged care staff - Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative
• Advance Care Planning resources - My Care, My Choices
• Websites with a range of resources for the public and health professionals
  • Palliative Care Australia
  • Palliative Care Queensland
  • Palliative Care Victoria
• Palliative Care support service - PalAssist
• Care at the end of life - Queensland Government
• caring@home - resources for healthcare professionals caring for palliative patients