Annual Report 2011 - Calvary Health Care Bethlehem

Our Education Supporting
Pakistan
An ongoing relationship with St Elizabeth Hospital in
Pakistan has welcomed a leading initiative.
Patras Inayat, Pakistani Registered Nurse has been
gaining much needed clinical experience and expertise
at our hospital.
Patras participated in our accredited palliative care
course, Certificate in Palliative Care Nursing and has
gained clinical experience by spending time with staff
on the ward and visiting home based patients with the
community palliative care team.
Patras’s time with our hospital has allowed him to
improve his occupational skills by undertaking education
in a structured workplace training program, while gaining
clinical knowledge, which once he returns to Pakistan
will support him to set up a home based palliative
care program.
Consultant Work To
Cabrini Health
Further development of our palliative consultancy
services, consistent with our strategic direction of
developing statewide services, has seen a new joint
venture with Alfred Health in the provision of specialist
palliative medical consultancy to Cabrini Health.
This partnership has been in response to unmet needs
due to a statewide shortage of palliative specialists
and will result in improved outcomes for patients with
a terminal condition within the southern metropolitan
region. This collaboration builds on the existing alliance
with Alfred Health and provides staff with the opportunity
to work in a different environment and interact with a
range of specialists. In addition there is now a capacity
for joint research projects, which provides us with
a template for the development of similar specialist
consultancies in the future.
Southern Metropolitan
Region Palliative Care
Consortium
The Southern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care
Consortium (SMRPCC) is an alliance of palliative care
service providers that aims to support improvements in
the integration and coordination of palliative care services.
We have been a member of the consortium since it was
established and continue to benefit from an active role
in consortia activities. With our involvement with the
consortium this year we have contributed to a number of
SMRPCC projects including
1) The Southern Metropolitan Region Inpatient Access
Guide which provides information on how to
appropriately refer patients to palliative care inpatient
units in the region
2) The Aged Care Project which aims to develop
sustainable strategies for specialist palliative care
services to support Residential Aged Care Facilities
in the region
3) Availability to the region of patient medication fact
sheets as an outcome of the Community Pharmacy
in Palliative Care project
4) Work which will enhance the service we provide in
a cross-cultural context through the Regional Cultural
Diversity Strategic Framework Project, which aims
to support culturally competent palliative care service
provision in the region.
‘ Catholic hospitals
were founded not simply to help
the deserving poor but in
recognition that we have an
obligation to assist
those in need’.
by Elizabeth Hepburn IBVM
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