It’s just days away until we launch the new CareSearch Portal. You can still register for the online event to learn how the portal was built and how it will support patients, families, health professionals, and communities to make informed decisions.  

Hosted by CareSearch Director Professor Jennifer Tieman, the launch will feature the following speakers: 

• Judith Leeson AM
• Ms Helena Kyriazopoulos, CEO, Multicultural Communities Council of SA
• Professor Leeroy William, President, Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine
• Professor Virginia Lewis, Research Chair, Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing
• Dr Katrina Erny-Albrecht, Senior Research Fellow, CareSearch.

Along with the launch, we will be featuring a refreshed CareSearch brand which highlights the different sectors we work with.

Keeping a dying person comfortable at home requires GP involvement, and nursing and pharmacy inputs.  CareSearch has new resources to support GPs in caring for a dying person at home, including the Checklist - Planning for an expected home death (235kb pdf).  

In the final blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Dr Gursharan Singh, Research Fellow at QUT, highlights why understanding hospital-based service use by individuals with heart failure is crucial to inform health service development - including palliative care services.

In the eighth blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Juliane Samara a Nurse Practitioner at Calvary ACT Specialist Palliative Aged Care discusses a new intervention called Palliative Care Needs Rounds (PCNR) and how it can be used to improve palliative and end-of-life care coordination in residential aged care facilities (care homes).

In the seventh blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Associate Professor Megan Best from the University of Notre Dame Australia discusses why spiritual care is important in palliative care, and how training in spiritual caregiving can support healthcare professionals.