Queensland Health is committed to improving the health of Queenslanders in areas of need. One such area is palliative and end-of-life care.
PallConsult has been designed to boost the capacity of local healthcare teams to deliver patient-centred palliative and end-of-life care. It does this by providing 24/7 telephone advice hotlines and tailored education, mentoring and resources for health and aged care professionals.
By doing this, PallConsult supports people in the last year of their life to receive the right care, at the right time, in the setting of their choice, if possible and reduces unwanted presentations to acute care facilities. This factsheet explains more about PallConsult.
PallConsult provides clinical outreach services to build capacity across Queensland for local clinicians to provide quality care for people approaching end of life and wishing to remain at home. The PallConsult team comprises medical and nursing specialists from the Metro South Palliative Care Service.
Services include:
NEW - CADD-SOLIS and CADD-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps
A learning package for health professionals on how to safely set up, commence and provide necessary documentation for the CADD-SOLIS and CADD-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps for use in palliative care clinical settings - community, residential aged care and inpatient.
NIKI T34, T34 and BodyGuard T syringe pump
A learning package for health professionals on how to safely set up, commence and provide necessary documentation for the NIKI T34, T34 and BodyGuard T syringe pump for use in palliative care clinical settings - community, residential aged care and inpatient.
Palliative care resources, tools and education
This document allows GPs, nurses and personal care workers to easily locate relevant resources, tools and education relating to palliative and end-of-life care.
The Surefuser infusion device
A suite of resources has been developed for health professionals to learn how to set up, commence and monitor a Surefuser infusion device for use in the palliative care setting.
palliPHARM
A project working with community pharmacists to ensure Residential Aged Care Facility residents and all other community-based palliative care patients have timely access to palliative care medicines, if needed.
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