THE RADIO NATIONAL HOUR-Calls grow for fully funded palliative care model in Australia

Each day more than 400 people die from terminal illnesses in Australia.

No one wants to watch their loved ones suffer in their final moment and yet more than three in five Australians do not receive specialist palliative care at any stage before their death.

Could a federally funded palliative care service be the answer?

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  • Guests: Professor Meera Agar, Deputy Chair of Palliative Care AustraliaJean Kittson, comedian and patron of Palliative Care Nurses Australia
  • Producer: Grace Stranger
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