Category Archives: News

Not a Palliative Medicine Specialist? The ACI Executive Committee needs you

The ACI Palliative Care Network Executive Committee is seeking a Medical Specialist from a specialty...

Suffering, connection & authenticity: Palliative Care seminar keeps it real in Warilla

About 60 people gathered in Warilla near Port Kembla) yesterday 19th June to attend our Being...

Study participants wanted: Older prisoners, dementia, better care practices

Wed 27 June 3-5 pm via web-meeting. USyd researchers Fiona White & Sanetta du Toit...

Limited places available: Seminar on ‘Palliative Care and people with intellectual disability’

26th June. Dr Michele Wiese from Western University Sydney, and Ms Bernadette Curryer from the University...

Palliative Care NSW contributes to an international perspective of volunteering

It’s here! A recently released book by Oxford University Press The Changing Face of Volunteering in...

What Matters Most: Grief and bereavement support in palliative care

What Matters Most in grief and bereavement support in palliative care? During National Palliative Care...

Report summaries views of NSW palliative care staff and service users

From April to October 2017, roundtable meetings and consultation workshops on palliative care were held...

What Matters Most: Palliative Care debated in NSW Parliament for NPCW 2018

During National Palliative Care Week the Parliamentary Secretary for Regional and Rural Health, Leslie Williams,...

What Matters Most: Policy challenges for palliative care in NSW

Director Supportive and Palliative Medicine for Western Sydney LHD Dr Sally Greenaway spoke at the...

Waiting, Dying to Live for organ donation

Australia is well behind the Western world in organ and tissue donor rates. A new...

What Matters Most to the people of Broken Hill?

An eight year boy said, if he was really sick, he wanted “to be safe”. An...

What Matters Most: a personal reflection on palliative care

In National Palliative Care Week Heather Whitely Robertson, Head of Learning and Participation at the Art Gallery...