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Rural Palliative Care Program - Selection Criteria
Essential Criteria
- Access; information and assistance for patients and their carers
- Multiple stakeholder agencies/groups working together to improve palliative care outcomes
Desirable Criteria
- Ongoing professional development for palliative care and other health care workers
- Enhanced continuity of care for palliative care patients and their carers
- Improved management of patient information
Notes
- No money will be provided to pay for increased clinical hours under the RPC Program.
- RPC Program funds may be used to make strategic investments in capital, staff development, baseline research, project management.
- Encouragement is given to create meaningful partnerships.
EOI Guidelines - for information
Expressions of Interest were sought from eligible rural Divisions of General Practice that could satisfy the following guidelines:
- Facilitation of an interdisciplinary approach to the delivery of sustainable palliative care services, building on existing resources.
- Consultation and collaboration at local and regional level of key stakeholders in the provision of palliative care involving the Divisions of General Practice, the Area Health Service, private nursing agencies, pastoral care, community and consumer based groups, and volunteers.
- Strategic plan: describing proposed service model; which should reflect the following key components:
- 24 hour access line for advice, support, referral
- Project management using multi agency governance
- Integrated patient centered medical records system
- Implementation of service specific palliative care database (eg PalCIS)
- Facilitation of multidisciplinary team meetings, including strategies for the generation of enhanced primary care case conferences and care plans
- Ongoing education
- Links to specialised Palliative Care Services
- Provision of a multidisciplinary, multi-service communication strategy
- Identification of need through specific service assessments including such indicators as current palliative care patient Emergency Department presentations, GP on-call requirements, community / private nursing workload, current community access and service delivery.
- Use of the Griffith Area Palliative Care Service (GAPS) - Murrumbidgee Division of General Practice (MDGP) model to gauge sustainability of project, and
- A business plan including processes to identify sources of funding to ensure sustainability of rural palliative care services as well as a risk management strategy; including an outline of budget expectations.
Types of activities that will not be funded:
- GP clinical payments.
- Projects or materials which duplicate or extend existing resources or initiatives.
- Long-term, ongoing funding or routine service delivery costs.
- Activities that assist only a sole individual with no impact on the wider community.
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