Main Meeting Room

A practical discussion of the challenges in community palliative care and the presentation will aim, through clinical vignettes, to explore how community health services can complement one another to provide ongoing holistic care for patients with life-limiting illness.

Palliative care includes the general and sub specialist approach to complex symptom control for patients with life limiting illness across a spectrum of symptoms, as well as the psychological, social and biological symptom spectrum. Pharmacological treatments continue to expand and complexity continues to increase, with potential interventions going up in cost and access difficulty. Different …