'With the end in mind – shaping stronger health systems, delivering quality palliative care’
23OPCC will be an action-oriented event that engages national and international delegates around issues that are imperative in the sector today.
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Conference Themes
23OPCC Theme
Clinical Care
- Advances in physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care
- Stories from the front line of care
- What’s new in pain and symptom management?
Driving stronger health care systems
- Doing more with less – managing a shrinking resource pool
- Health promoting palliative care
- Supporting quality improvement in palliative care
- Name the different sectors and health care systems we want to influence?
Facing the challenges
- Palliative care in a ‘living with Covid’ society
- Preparing for the next pandemic – what did we learn from the recent ones?
- Palliative care and VAD
- Flood, fire, and storm - delivering palliative care in a world of climate change
- Managing bereavement
- Delayed grieving
- Complex bereavement
- Workforce retention
Health system reform
- Increasing access to and improving equity in palliative care
- Advocacy and lobbying
- Palliative care through a public health lens
Models of care – implications for the future
- Identifying models of care that are sustainable, scalable, and collaborative
- Culturally appropriate models of care
- Developing and evaluating outcomes
- Developing effective partnerships
Quality palliative care for diverse populations, both for consumers and service providers
Populations include:
- Paediatric
- Aged care
- Disability
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- LGBTIQ+
- Rural and remote
- Homeless
- Multicultural communities
- Prisons
- Hospitals, both public and private
Workforce - the who, what, and how
- Sustaining the current workforce
- How do we define work?
- Building a workforce with breadth, depth, and diversity
- Building specialist workforces
- Building and sustaining a volunteer workforce
- Building a healthy and resilient workforce
- Training and retaining palliative care nurses
