Palliative Care
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The North West Hospital and Health Service Palliative Care Service is committed to providing excellent quality holistic care which is seamless in its delivery to the palliative care patient, family and carers from the time of referral, regardless of the place of care within Mount Isa.
What is Palliative Care
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients who are living with a life-limiting illness (adults and children) and their families/caregivers
- through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and assessment;
- assisting with the treatment of pain and other distressing symptoms, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual.
Addressing suffering involves taking care of issues beyond physical symptoms. Palliative care uses a team approach to support patients and their caregivers. This includes addressing practical needs and providing bereavement counselling. It offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death.
Our Palliative Care Service aims to streamline person centred care across all domains of the service within the North West region of Queensland. It is a nurse-led community service.
The model operates by providing guidance and support to general health care professionals, enabling expert symptom management in the provision of Palliative Care across all phases of the palliative care trajectory. It emphasises the need for an integrated approach to care between external Specialist Palliative Care providers and other community care providers.
This Model works in conjunction with a Partnership model of care. This partnership includes all medical staff, SPaRTa, General Practitioners, Pallconsult, nursing staff, allied health professionals, administration, and operational staff all working together to provide the most comfortable outcomes for the patient and their family.
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