Introduction s.1
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families who are facing the challenges associated with life-limiting illness. This is achieved through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification, high quality assessment, and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems.
2013 Key Priorities s. 2
- Improve resource utilization of palliative care services including systematic assessment of need, and streamline processes of access and referral to specialist palliative care services.
- Support the delivery, and improve the quality of, generalist and specialist palliative care services in line with our strategic policy direction.
- Improve the integration and governance of services in generalist and specialist palliative in care settings.
- Strengthen the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of existing service provision through the development and collection of evidence based performance measures that support the quality improvement cycle.
- Progress the development of pediatric palliative care services.
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