Advanced Care

The GCfAHPC Project by WQPHN works to enhance awareness and facilitate access to safe and quality palliative and end-of-life care within the comfort of individuals' homes. Our aim is to establish connections between education and training resources in palliative care throughout the Western Queensland region, fostering collaboration across all levels of health networks, including local communities.

These objectives contribute to achieving the following intended overarching outcomes of:

• improved capacity and responsiveness of services to meet local needs and priorities;
• improved patient access to quality palliative care services in the home; and
• improved coordination of care for patients across health care providers and integration of palliative care services in their region.

In close partnership with local and state government networks, Hospital and Health Services, non-profit service providers, statewide and national palliative care projects and services, local businesses and community stakeholders, we strive to ensure a comprehensive and sustainable framework for enhanced care outcomes.

To achieve these goals, WQPHN conducted a comprehensive needs assessments and mapping activities, informing the planning and development of initiatives.

Our strategy involves establishing new networks or leveraging existing ones, all while striving to elevate the standard of palliative care in Western Queensland by:

• improving access to palliative care at home and support end-of-life care systems and services in primary health care and community care;
• enabling the right care at the right time and in the right place to reduce unnecessary hospitalisation;
• generating and using data to support continuous improvement of services across sectors; and
• using available technologies to support flexible and responsive palliative care at home, including in the after-hours.