CHA maps the Catholic palliative care sector

A new Catholic Health Australia report launched this week is highlighting the extensive and excellent work Catholic health providers are undertaking in the palliative care space.

The aim of this report is to contribute to the quality and quantity of information that palliative care organisations, including CHA, policy-makers and decision-makers, have available. It also explores innovative opportunities that will enable Australia, as a nation, to embrace and resource palliative care as an integral part of health care that affects everyone in society.

Palliative care experts from across Australia were on hand to launch the Palliative Care in the Catholic Sector report at the Calvary North Adelaide Hospital, the first private hospital in South Australia to introduce home-based palliative care services.

Calvary Palliative Home Care Service manager Kevin Hardy (pictured above) spoke at the launch, saying “the goal of palliative care was to give people a choice, which for many was remaining at home. The significance of giving patients this choice can’t be understated, particularly at a time in their lives when many choices are taken away from them.”

Click here to read the joint CHA-Calvary media release

Click here to listen to an interview with the ABC

Click here to access the CHA report

article from CHA newsletter 14 March 2019