Q&A. Love it or loath it, or maybe a bit of both. But there is no denying that it strikes a chord with a sizable portion of the Australian population who would perhaps rather not be watching A Current Affair, Today Tonight or their new lovechild: The Verdict. Continue reading
Prof Patsy Yates sharing her reflections on setting up a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in End of Life Care at the PCRNV Breakfast Forum
For the third year in a row, the Australian Palliative Care Research Colloquium was held at the Rendezvous Grand Hotel in Melbourne on October 22-23. The meeting was once again preceded by a breakfast forum hosted by Palliative Care Research Network Victoria (PCRNV), which served as a tempting entrée to the two-day main course of fantastic presentations and workshops exploring a diverse range of topics pertaining to palliative care research. Conversations about research continued over tea and meal breaks, next to quality poster presentations, and during the convivial conference dinner on the banks of the Yarra. Continue reading
And we’re back for another round!
Following on from the highly successful inaugural #PallANZ tweet chat last month, we are delighted to announce that we will be hosting another tweet chat in November! Join team Palliverse (@Palliverse) and Liz Callaghan, CEO of Palliative Care Australia (@PCACEO), and “Let’s talk about death, baby!” Share your stories and reflections on having THE conversation with your family, friends, patient, doctor, nurse, spiritual counsellor…
Date: November 5th 2015
Hope to see you all there!
This really resonated with me… well worth a read.
A young doctor describing her developing perspective on a “good death”; on dying and end of life care in our healthcare system.
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9554583/doctor-good-death
Sonia
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is a global day of action organised by the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance and held on the second Saturday of October every year. It aims to:
The theme this year is “Hidden Lives, Hidden Patients” – focusing on people whose palliative care needs are often not recognised, such as children, indigenous people, those living in rural settings, prisoners, soldiers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals.
To help to raise awareness about “Hidden Lives, Hidden Patients”, Palliverse and Palliative Care Australia invite everyone to join us for a tweet chat on Thursday, October 8th using the hashtag #PallANZ Continue reading
Join team Palliverse (@Palliverse) and Liz Callaghan, CEO of Palliative Care Australia (@PCACEO), for a tweet chat about “Hidden Lives / Hidden Patients” – the theme of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2015, focusing on patients living in unique situations who often struggle with access to palliative care, including children, LGBT individuals, prisoners, soldiers and those living in rural areas.
Date: October 8th 2015
Spread the word and hope to see you then!
With a theme of ‘Fit for the Future’, the 13th Australian Palliative Care Conference utilised a coordinated and multifaceted social media strategy to enhance the delegates’ experience and reach new audiences globally. This was achieved through the concerted efforts of team Palliverse (@Palliverse) and other key individuals, including Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair). Continue reading
Got an interest in health care policy?
Check out the Harkness fellowship for a paid 12 month period in the USA for you and your family. It’s available to applicants from Australia and New Zealand (due by 8th Sept) and also Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (due in November).
You will probably need a Master’s degree or a PhD, or at least a bachelor’s degree plus applicable work experience.
They would like “a research proposal that falls within the scope of The Commonwealth Fund’s mission …… the Fund’s priority areas include: expanding access to affordable health insurance coverage; transforming the health care delivery system to improve patient outcomes and control costs through payment reform, primary care, and coordinated care systems, with a particular focus on the sickest and most vulnerable patients; learning from successful international delivery system innovation.”
Love that they are looking for “the kinds of game-changing ideas that can potentially disrupt the current health care system in positive ways.”
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/grants-and-fellowships/fellowships/harkness-fellowships
(Image: University of Michigan Library Card Catalog by dfulmer / CC BY)
We have updated the Palliverse researchers database and temporarily renamed it “Palliverse peoples database“.
Why, I hear you ask? Continue reading
Little Stars is an award-winning series of films about paediatric palliative care, made by Melbourne’s Moonshine Movies and partially crowd-funded (via Indigogo).
They are looking for people to host screenings of the film, particularly around World Hospice and Palliative Care day in October. From their website:
“We encourage you to get behind the project and help us band together towards the goal of ensuring that every child needing palliative care can access it worldwide, thereby relieving the suffering of children and families facing life-limiting illness.
As a result, we’re delighted to invite you to pledge to host a screening or to use the films for public education or advocacy. In return, we will mail you a DVD of the films in the Little Stars collection and a How-to-Host-A-Screening Guide at no cost.”
Please note that Palliverse is not affiliated with Little Stars or Moonshine Movies – we thought our readers might be interested in hosting a screening and promoting paediatric palliative care. For more details and to pledge to host, visit the Little Stars website.
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