Barwon South Western Region Palliative Care Consortium News & Events
Australian Cancer Survivorship Year in Review
February 1, 2024The Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre is pleased to share its ‘Year in Review’ summarising highlights from 2023. Click on the image for the link to read. To learn more about the ACSC or to explore opportunities to collaborate visit the website petermac.org/cancersurvivorship, email [email protected] or phone +61 3 8559 6220. READ HEREBack to the Future Palliative Care Conference 2024
January 31, 2024Grampians Regional Palliative Care Team are delighted to host our 9th Palliative Care Conference. The conference will focus on the growth of Palliative Care in regional Australia over the past forty years and enhance our knowledge and skills of current and future innovative healthcare practices for people with a life limiting illness. 1 to 3...Read more
Too young for residential care?
January 17, 2024The program is designed to reduce the number of younger people at risk of entering and living in residential aged care. It aims to give younger people greater choice and control over where they live and what supports they need to either transition out of, or avoid entering, residential aged care. Tuesday 20 February 2024...Read more
Room 64 – A Palliative Care Podcast
December 29, 2023Room 64 was the room where Evelyn Brooks spent the final three weeks of her life. But it was more than just bricks and mortar. It was people, love, and support. “Room 64” is a podcast about the stories that came out of that room – and other rooms like it in Barwon Health’s Palliative...Read more
Palliative Care Victoria – 2024 Summit
December 29, 2023The program will focus on the future of Victoria’s palliative care workforce with the theme of Inspiration, Innovation, Integration. 9:00AM – 5:00PM, Friday 23rd February 2024 Carson Conference Centre, ANMF, 535 Elizabeth St, Melbourne, VIC Register here PCV Members $90 Non-members $135National Palliative Care Week, 19-25 May 2024
December 29, 2023Australians have a great attitude to life; we want to bring that same openness and curiosity to how we approach end of life and National Palliative Care Week gives us a chance to explore the thinking and conversations that go with it. In 2024, National Palliative Care Week will run between Sunday, 19 May to...Read more
Palliative care pathway
November 12, 2014From Geelong to Victoria’s south-west When faced with the challenge of a life-threatening illness, support from a palliative care team can make a huge difference to your quality of life. Serious illness can be isolating and overwhelming. Its ripples are not just felt by the individual, but by the family members and friends around them. And...Read more