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WORKING
COLLABORATIVELY
Te Omanga Hospice continues to support the delivery of palliative care in Aged Residential Care facilities, the Hutt Hospital, and together with general practitioners for patients in their own home. We also provide specialist consultancy services in the Wairarapa. This collaborative approach is to ensure equity of access to palliative care wherever a person calls home.
WE PROVIDED
ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO HELP
WE PROVIDED CONSULTATION & ADVICE FOR
144
405
PATIENTS IN AGED RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES
PATIENTS
IN CONJUNCTION WITH GPS IN THE HUTT VALLEY
AGED RESIDENTIAL CARE
Our Specialist Palliative Care Nursing team support patients, whānau, and care staff, in Aged Residential Care (ARC) facilities. They work in partnership with the 15 ARC facilities across the Hutt Valley.
Our team works alongside doctors, nurses, health care assistants, therapists and other care team members, to provide specialist advice, education programmes, and mentoring. Their role is to support and empower ARC facility staff in their provision
of palliative care, especially for those patients
and whānau with complex care needs. Supportive nursing therapies are also offered to patients. These therapies are holistic in approach and provide symptom relief to increase quality of life.
During the year, we worked with an ARC facility
to pilot a quality improvement initiative aimed
to increase positive palliative care experiences
for residents, whānau and staff. This involved the development of palliative care room resources and palliative care baskets for whānau (pictured). The facility's nursing and care staff received education on the best use of these resources to enhance this positive approach.
PRIMARY CARE
Our team of specialist palliative care nurses, known as Palliative Care Facilitators, help support, facilitate, and coordinate palliative care services with our primary care providers in the Hutt Valley. Our team includes a Psychosocial Community Liaison who supports connections with existing community primary providers, and education on how to refer patients and whānau for only psychosocial palliative care support.
The team’s role is to create systems that enable primary care providers to support the palliative care needs of their patients and whānau in the community. They work to strengthen the capacity of Hutt Valley general practitioners (GPs), practice nurses, palliative care link nurses and other primary care providers, to continue to provide quality palliative care to their patients in the community.
This year we surveyed primary care providers to understand if our service currently meets the support required for their patients with palliative care needs. It gave us valuable feedback and tied into our goal of working collaboratively with health care providers.
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