A new model for a palliative approach to care in Australia
Introduction: There is an inconsistent provision of palliative and end-of-life (palliative) care across Australia, particularly in regional, rural and remote areas. Systematic solutions can help to address identified gaps and improve access to and quality of care and support for patients, their fami...
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| description | Introduction: There is an inconsistent provision of palliative and end-of-life (palliative) care across Australia, particularly in regional, rural and remote areas. Systematic solutions can help to address identified gaps and improve access to and quality of care and support for patients, their families and carers at the end of life. The Far West New South Wales (NSW) Palliative and End of Life Model of Care is a systematic solution for a rural and remote palliative approach to care. The model enables a consistent and contextually adaptable, patient-focused palliative approach to care so that everyone receives the care they need from appropriately skilled and informed clinicians, in a timely manner, and as close to home as possible.
Methods: A narrative report used literature and internal documents as well as the perspective and experience of key informants involved in establishing the Far West NSW Palliative and End of Life Model of Care. This narrative report aims to describe the design, development and function of the model, and to identify the essential elements to implement or maintain the model elsewhere.
Results: The model was developed by the Specialist Palliative Care Service in the remotely situated Far West Local Health District of NSW. The Far West NSW Palliative and End of Life Model of Care was designed to guide a palliative approach to care in the last year of life, through death and into bereavement, regardless of age, diagnosis, culture, location or provider. The model functionally provides the scaffolding for locally and contextually relevant components of a quality palliative approach to care in consideration of a person's wishes. There are three essential elements to the development, maintenance and further implementation of the model and a palliative approach elsewhere.
Conclusion: Until recently, the model relied on paper-based documents and resources; it is now available online. It has the potential to enable a consistent, yet contextually adaptable, patient-focused palliative approach to care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9d1f60c342c64ced89e46dfef1846f8f2022-12-22T04:07:30ZengJames Cook UniversityRural and Remote Health1445-63542021-10-012110.22605/RRH5947A new model for a palliative approach to care in AustraliaEmily Saurman0Sarah Wenham1Melissa Cumming2Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, University of Sydney, PO BOX 457, Broken Hill, NSW 2880, AustraliaFar West Local Health District, Broken Hill, NSW 2880, AustraliaFar West Local Health District, Broken Hill, NSW 2880, AustraliaIntroduction: There is an inconsistent provision of palliative and end-of-life (palliative) care across Australia, particularly in regional, rural and remote areas. Systematic solutions can help to address identified gaps and improve access to and quality of care and support for patients, their families and carers at the end of life. The Far West New South Wales (NSW) Palliative and End of Life Model of Care is a systematic solution for a rural and remote palliative approach to care. The model enables a consistent and contextually adaptable, patient-focused palliative approach to care so that everyone receives the care they need from appropriately skilled and informed clinicians, in a timely manner, and as close to home as possible. Methods: A narrative report used literature and internal documents as well as the perspective and experience of key informants involved in establishing the Far West NSW Palliative and End of Life Model of Care. This narrative report aims to describe the design, development and function of the model, and to identify the essential elements to implement or maintain the model elsewhere. Results: The model was developed by the Specialist Palliative Care Service in the remotely situated Far West Local Health District of NSW. The Far West NSW Palliative and End of Life Model of Care was designed to guide a palliative approach to care in the last year of life, through death and into bereavement, regardless of age, diagnosis, culture, location or provider. The model functionally provides the scaffolding for locally and contextually relevant components of a quality palliative approach to care in consideration of a person's wishes. There are three essential elements to the development, maintenance and further implementation of the model and a palliative approach elsewhere. Conclusion: Until recently, the model relied on paper-based documents and resources; it is now available online. It has the potential to enable a consistent, yet contextually adaptable, patient-focused palliative approach to care.https://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/5947/Australiamodel of carenarrative reviewpalliative approachqualitative. |
| spellingShingle | Emily Saurman Sarah Wenham Melissa Cumming A new model for a palliative approach to care in Australia Rural and Remote Health Australia model of care narrative review palliative approach qualitative. |
| title | A new model for a palliative approach to care in Australia |
| title_full | A new model for a palliative approach to care in Australia |
| title_fullStr | A new model for a palliative approach to care in Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new model for a palliative approach to care in Australia |
| title_short | A new model for a palliative approach to care in Australia |
| title_sort | new model for a palliative approach to care in australia |
| topic | Australia model of care narrative review palliative approach qualitative. |
| url | https://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/5947/ |
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