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Ensuring quality in Palliative Care
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1. Ensuring quality in Palliative Care A/Prof Rohan Vora
Director Supportive & Palliative Care Services
Gold Coast Health Service District, Qld.
RACGP: NSC – Qual Care (portfolios: Pall & Aged Care)
2. Traditional Western Medicine & Government measures of Quality Western Medicine
Avoiding death and increasing Length of Survival (e.g. Mortality & Morbidity reviews)
Government measures
Avoiding hospitalisation
Avoiding costs on the MBS & PBS
Dying at home or in RACFs
3. Measuring quality in EoL Care “The number of thank you letters in our draws will no longer do…” Kathy Eagar PCOC “neither will the weight of chocolates!!!”
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