More Australians say they would prefer to die at home, with an increasing number of patients moving away from hospital-based palliative and end-of-life care to community-based care.
GPs play a pivotal role in caring for patients who wish to die at home and their families. To support GPs in increasing their confidence in delivering community-based palliative care, caring@home has developed two new, free education activities.
More Australians say they would prefer to die at home, with an increasing number of patients moving away from hospital-based palliative and end-of-life care to community-based care.
GPs play a pivotal role in caring for patients who wish to die at home and their families. To support GPs in increasing their confidence in delivering community-based palliative care, caring@home has developed two new, free education activities.
End-of-life planning mini audit
GPs can review their care of those with a life-limiting illness with this structured clinical audit.
This course guides users through a meaningful assessment of their management approach for three current or past patients, applying the Prompts for End-of-Life Planning (PELP) Framework and evidence-based guidelines for end-of-life care.
This mini audit for end-of-life planning will empower GPs to:
- Confidently recognise patients who may benefit from end-of-life planning, ensuring timely and appropriate conversations
- Strengthen the quality and clarity of end-of-life discussion documentation to support coordinated care
- Apply the PELP Framework to review and enhance care planning at key phases
- Reflect on current approaches and implement improvements aligned with best-practice standards.
FastTrack CPD
Four core medicines can be used to manage common terminal care symptoms. It is important for GPs caring for home-based palliative care patients to know the drugs available and how to use them, as well as the relevant legal constraints and protections, such as the doctrine of double effect.
Activity 1: FastTrack CPD: Terminal care: management of pain and respiratory secretions
Featuring morphine, used to manage pain and dyspnoea, and hyoscine butylbromide for noisy respiratory secretions (‘the death rattle’).
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Activity 2: FastTrack CPD: Terminal care: management of anxiety and emesis
Featuring clonazepam, used to manage anxiety, and haloperidol, used for emesis.
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