The 13th Australian Palliative Care Conference 2015
 
Thursday 3 September, 2015
07:30 - 08:30Meet the Experts Breakfast [More Info]
Meeting Room 217
Professor David Currow, Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders Centre for Clinical Change, Flinders University
Dr Gail Eva PhD, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Sciences , Brunel University London
Dr Christian Sinclair MD, Assistant Professor, Palliative Medicine Division, Internal Medicine Department , University of Kansas Medical Center
Associate Professor Katrina Anderson, Associate Professor, General Practice, Australian National University Medical School
08:45 - 09:00What's new in the sector? [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
09:00 - 09:45Plenary 6: Fit for their futures? How palliative care disables people with life-limiting illness. [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
Dr Gail Eva PhD, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Sciences , Brunel University London
09:45 - 10:30Plenary 7: Training tomorrow’s doctors to bring compassion and care to the patient with advanced illness [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
Associate Professor Katrina Anderson, Associate Professor, General Practice, Australian National University Medical School
10:30 - 11:00Morning Tea
Trade Foyer
11:00 - 12:30Concurrent Session B1 - Bereavement
Plenary Room 3
11:00 - 11:25B1.1 - General Practitioners' experience of bereavement care [More Info]
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Associate Professor Moira O'Connor, Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
11:25 - 11:50B1.2 - Bereavement risk assessment in palliative care: The development of a brief grief measure to screen for carers who may be at risk of complex grief. [More Info]
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Ms Margaret Sealey, PhD Candidate, Curtin University
11:50 - 12:15B1.3 - Building community capacity in bereavement support: Lessons learnt from bereaved caregivers [More Info]
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Dr Lauren Breen, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University
12:15 - 12:30B1.4 - Setting up Vale (vah-lay) [More Info]
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Jacqueline Taylor, Coordinator, Community Bereavement Program, Vale, Cabrini Health
11:00 - 12:30Concurrent Session B2 - Specific Populations
Meeting Room 217
11:00 - 11:25B2.1 - The support needs of terminally ill people living alone at home: a narrative review [More Info]
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Dr Lauren Breen, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University
11:25 - 11:40B2.2 - One short story, one big question: how do we provide quality palliative care for those living with disability in the group home setting? [More Info]
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Miss Sarah Coulson, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Tasmanian Health Service - North
11:40 - 12:05B2.3 - Motoring On-improving quality of life for MND patients & Caregivers [More Info]
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Mrs Roslyn Savage, Senior Palliative Care Physiotherapist, Calvary Health Care Kogarah
12:05 - 12:30B2.4 - Advance Care Planning for People Living with Disability: “Hear my Voice.” [More Info]
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Ms Jacqui Pierce, Manager, Karingal
11:00 - 12:30Concurrent Session B3 - Workshops
Meeting Room 218
11:00 - 11:45B3.1 - Delivering Dignity with Technology [More Info]
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Dr Scott Martin, Head of Applied Physics Group, CSIRO
11:45 - 12:30B3.2 - Demystifying social media for palliative care clinicians [More Info]
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Ms Anna Collins, Research fellow, Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
11:00 - 12:30Concurrent Session B4 - Service Delivery
Meeting Room 220
11:00 - 11:25B4.1 - Early integration of palliative care - possibilities and challenges [More Info]
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A/Prof Jennifer Philip, Deputy Director, Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
11:25 - 11:50B4.2 - Exploring differences in communication between patients, the family caregiver & healthcare professionals in an outpatient psychosocial clinic setting [More Info]
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Ms Kate Swetenham, Director, Southern Adelaide Palliaitve Services Daw Park RGH
11:50 - 12:15B4.3 - Palliative care staff views about a change to a model of early integration of specialist palliative care: Work-life and organisational implications [More Info]
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A/Prof Natasha Michael, Director of Palliative Medicine, Cabrini Health
12:15 - 12:30B4.4 - How do you prepare a workforce to function effectively in the context of ‘Death, Death, Death, Death, Politics, Politics, Politics, Death’? [More Info]
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Ms Kath Skinner, Director Palliative Services NSW, Silver Chain
11:00 - 12:30Concurrent Session B5 - Nursing
Meeting Room 219
11:00 - 11:25B5.1 - Palliative Care Nursing Education in Poorly Resourced Nations: honoring diversity [More Info]
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Ms Joan Ryan, Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Consultant, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
11:25 - 11:50B5.2 - Survey of nurses’ opinions about end of life care at a tertiary metropolitan hospital [More Info]
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Dr Juli Moran, Director Palliative Care Service, Austin Health
11:50 - 12:15B5.3 - The effectiveness and cost of providing a nurse practitioner palliative care service in an aged care setting: A pilot study [More Info]
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Professor Deborah Parker, Director, Centre for Applied Nursing Research
12:15 - 12:30B5.4 - Development of an education and competency framework for health care assistants at Mary Potter Hospice, Wellington, NZ. [More Info]
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Lynley Batson, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Mary Potter Hospice
11:00 - 12:30Concurrent Session B6 - Workshops
Meeting Room 216
11:00 - 11:45B6.1 - Hospice and Palliative Medicine Online: moving from clutter and confusion to chatter and curation [More Info]
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Dr Christian Sinclair MD, Assistant Professor, Palliative Medicine Division, Internal Medicine Department , University of Kansas Medical Center
11:45 - 12:30B6.2 - The development of Palliative Sedation Guidelines (PST): An exploration of futility, complex refractory symptoms, suffering and management with PST [More Info]
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Dr Peter Allcroft, Staff Specialist, Southern Adeliade Palliative Care Daw Park RGH
11:00 - 12:30Concurrent Session B7 - Speed talks [More Info]
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11:00 - 12:30B7.1 - The future of paediatric palliative care: developing a state-wide bereavement support program [More Info]
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Ms Danielle Beston, Bereavement co-ordinator, Sydney Children's Hospital Network
11:00 - 12:30B7.2 - Future directions in benchmarking Australian palliative care outcomes [More Info]
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Professor Kathy Eagar, Director, Australian Health Services Research Institute, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong
11:00 - 12:30B7.3 - Translating the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) ketamine randomised controlled trial findings into clinical practice [More Info]
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Dr Nikki McCaffrey, Health Economist, PaCCSC, Flinders University
11:00 - 12:30B7.4 - Teaching palliative care and advance care planning to aged care staff: does it work? [More Info]
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Ms Karen Conte, National Project Manager, Decision Assist
11:00 - 12:30B7.5 - The palliative care-rehabilitation telehealth interface: A case study [More Info]
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Dr Deidre Morgan, Researcher/Lecturer, Flinders University
11:00 - 12:30B7.6 - Dying at Home [More Info]
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Ms Sarah Warner, General Manager, Home Instead Senior Care
11:00 - 12:30B7.7 - Wearing the Willow and Writing [More Info]
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Ms Kathleen Wurth, End of Life Care Coordinator, Hunter New England Health
11:00 - 12:30B7.8 - " Patient Not Salvagable" and other highlights form a Death Chart Audit [More Info]
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Ms Catherine Munro, End fo Life Care Coordinator, Hunter New England Local Health District
11:00 - 12:30B7.9 - What do patients with palliative care needs and their carers state is most important for end-of-life care in the hospital system? A systematic review [More Info]
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Mrs Claudia Virdun, Deputy Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), University of Technology, Sydney
11:00 - 12:30B7.10 - Cultural diversity and end-of-life decision-making: What we learn from hospital interpreters [More Info]
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Dr Barbara Hayes (presenting author), Clinical Leader - Advance Care Planning, Northern Health
11:00 - 12:30B7.11 - Laying the foundations for understanding grief and loss: A success story [More Info]
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Naomi McGowan, National Project Manager, Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy, Calvary
11:00 - 12:30B7.12 - Malabsorption in Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency due to Pancreatic Cancer - Qualitative Interviews with Patients and Carers [More Info]
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Dr Wendy Muircroft, Staff Specialist, South Adelaide Palliative Service
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
Trade Foyer
13:30 - 13:50Plenary 8: The Ian Maddocks Guest Lecture: Providing palliative care to remote Aboriginal patients – a case series [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
Dr Sally Banfield, GP registrar, Territory Palliative Care - Central Australia
13:50 - 14:30Plenary 9: Rethinking Palliative Care in Non-Malignant Disease: Time for new models of care [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
A/Prof Jennifer Philip, Deputy Director, Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
14:30 - 15:00Plenary 10: Bring our dying home: the role of advanced practice clinicians in strengthening community capacity [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
Ms Kate Swetenham, Service Director, Southern Adelaide Palliative Care
15:00 - 15:30Afternoon Tea
Trade Foyer
15:30 - 17:10Concurrent Session C1 - Clinical 2
Plenary Room 3
15:30 - 15:55C1.1 - Cost-effectiveness of subcutaneous ketamine in the management of chronic cancer pain [More Info]
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Dr Nikki McCaffrey, Health Economist, PaCCSC, Flinders University
15:55 - 16:20C1.2 - Can GPs predict the death of their older patients using intuition or a predictive tool? [More Info]
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Professor Geoffrey Mitchell, Professor of General Practice and Palliative Care, University of Queensland
16:20 - 16:45C1.3 - The feasibility and impact of using the Distress Thermometer and Problem List Screening Tool in Community Palliative Care Populations [More Info]
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Ms Trish Sutton, Nurse Manager, Sacred Heart Health Service
16:45 - 17:10C1.4 - Improving national palliative care service symptom outcomes systematically through point-of-care data collection, structured feedback and benchmarking [More Info]
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Professor David Currow, Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders Centre for Clinical Change, Flinders University
15:30 - 17:00Concurrent Session C2 - Community
Meeting Room 220
15:30 - 15:50C2.1 - Measuring Outcomes of the Implementation of the Emergency Medication Kit in Community Specialist Palliative Care Service Patients [More Info]
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Ms Kate Maher, Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, Calvary Health Care ACT
15:50 - 16:10C2.2 - DYING AT HOME: MAKING IT POSSIBLE [More Info]
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Mrs Cheryl Johnson, Head of Region for HammondAtHome in Northern Sydney, and Manager of HammondCare’s Palliative Care Home Support Program, HammondCare
16:10 - 16:30C2.3 - Achieving better end of life care for Australians [More Info]
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Dr Stephen Parnis, Vice President, Australian Medical Association
16:30 - 16:50C2.4 - 21st century policy challenges [More Info]
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Ms Theresa Williamson, Acting Manager Palliative Care, Department Health & Human Services
15:30 - 17:00Concurrent Session C3 - Workshops
Meeting Room 218
15:30 - 16:15C3.1 - Listening to the whole person! Improving communication skills in health professionals [More Info]
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Associate Professor Katrina Anderson, Associate Professor, General Practice, Australian National University Medical School
16:15 - 17:00C3.2 - Communicating with children and families – the importance of child development in paediatric palliative care [More Info]
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Dr Jacqueline Duc, Paediatric Fellow, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital
15:30 - 17:10Concurrent Session C4 - Quality Practice
Meeting Room 219
15:30 - 15:55C4.1 - Evaluating the utility of the QUAL-EC in the clinical care of patients with advanced cancer [More Info]
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Professor Anne Wilkinson, Chair of Palliative and Supportive Care, Edith Cowan University
15:55 - 16:20C4.2 - Responding to urgency of need in palliative care: The development of a decision aid for Palliative Care triage [More Info]
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Dr Bethany Russell, Palliative Care Physician, Centre for Palliative Care
16:20 - 16:45C4.3 - Patient safety at the end of life: Patient expertise and the trouble with ‘the logic of patient choice’ [More Info]
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Dr Aileen Collier, Lecturer, Flinders University
16:45 - 17:10C4.4 - How is quality of life defined by palliative care patients? A synthesis of qualitative research [More Info]
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Dr Nikki McCaffrey, Health Economist, PaCCSC, Flinders University
15:30 - 17:10Concurrent Session C5 - Carers, Patients and Families
Meeting Room 217
15:30 - 15:55C5.1 - Development of a Carer package for safe administration of subcutaneous medications across the Grampians Region [More Info]
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Mrs Regina Kendall, Nurse Practitioner, Grampians Regional Palliative Care Team
15:55 - 16:20C5.2 - Hearing ‘the patient’s voice’: Exploring patient perceptions of hospice services to inform future service design [More Info]
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Dr Martin Woods, Research Fellow, Mary Potter Hospice
16:20 - 16:45C5.3 - Keeping Families Fit For the Future: A Strategic Framework to Address the Complex Needs of Adult Cancer Patients with Minor Children [More Info]
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Dr. Brandy Ficek, Medical Director, Cancer Treatment Centers of America
16:45 - 17:10C5.4 - Exploring the influence of migration experiences Chinese migrant women carers: Strategies to improve palliative care access for Chinese families [More Info]
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Mrs Mary Heidenreich, CNS2, Calvary Healthcare Sydney
15:30 - 17:00Concurrent Session C6 - Communication
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15:30 - 15:55C6.1 - An explorative study of a new intervention for couples to facilitate communication around end of life issues [More Info]
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Dr Elizabeth Lobb, Professor of Palliative Care, Calvary Health Care Sydney
15:55 - 16:20C6.2 - ‘No one told me he was dying’: End of life care in the acute hospital environment, family members’ perspectives. [More Info]
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Mrs Jade Odgers, Manager, Grampians Regional Palliative Care Team, Ballarat Health Services
16:20 - 16:40C6.3 - Implementing facilitated case conferencing for aged care residents with advanced dementia – development of a Palliative Care Planning Coordinator role [More Info]
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Dr Tim Luckett, Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
16:40 - 17:00C6.4 - Is there evidence that conducting family meetings in palliative care is worth the effort: Results from a systematic review [More Info]
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Prof Jane Phillips, Professor Nursing (Palliative Care), Director Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care, University of Technology Sydney
15:30 - 17:00Concurrent Session C7 - Speed Talks [More Info]
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15:30 - 17:00C7.1 - An international collaboration studying the benefits and harms of medicines used in palliative care – RAPID Pharmacovigilance in Palliative Care [More Info]
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Ms Linda Devilee, National Manager, PaCCSC (Flinders University)
15:30 - 17:00C7.2 - Conversations about death, dying and end of life: educational resources to build clinician capacity in acute hospitals [More Info]
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Kim Devery, Head of Discipline, Senior Lecturer, Flinders University
15:30 - 17:00C7.3 - 'End of Life Care Coordinator? What do they do?' [More Info]
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Ms Deb Hynds, Clinical Nurse Educator, Hunter New England Health Service
15:30 - 17:00C7.4 - Retrospective Audit of the frequency of Terminal Care Medications Prescription during the last 48 hours of life in inpatients. [More Info]
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Dr Shawna Yen-Jui Koh, Palliative care advanced trainee, Sydney Institute of Palliative Medicine
15:30 - 17:00C7.5 - Love Me and Let Me Die- a personal jouney of discovery about Advance Care Directives after the planned death of a partner [More Info]
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mr brian gepp, retiree, self
15:30 - 17:00C7.6 - Staying Home to Die is not a Dream but a Reality [More Info]
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Ms Di Stingel, Clinical Nurse Manager, The District Nurses
15:30 - 17:00C7.7 - A Patient centred approach: Recognising & respecting the unique needs of palliative care patients. [More Info]
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Miss Amy Williams, Registered Nurse, Mary Potter Hospice
15:30 - 17:00C7.8 - Understanding and Improving PCOC within a Level 3 Specialist Palliative Care Service. PCOC What a pain! That's what the team used to say! [More Info]
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Mrs Mardie MacDonald, CNS/Admissions Coordinator, St.Vincents Hospital Australia
15:30 - 17:00C7.9 - Working through the maze: Recognising a need for partnerships in cancer and palliative care pathways [More Info]
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Jenny Fox, Research Nurse, QUT
15:30 - 17:00C7.10 - It's Now or Never - Meaningful Conversations at End of Life [More Info]
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Ms Kathleen Wurth, End of Life Care Coordinator, Hunter New England Health
15:30 - 17:00C7.11 - The Aged Care Divide [More Info]
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Ms Claire Kemp, CNC Quality and Education, Mercy Palliative Care
15:30 - 17:00C7.12 - A Motor Neuron Disease resource for specialist palliative care professionals. [More Info]
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Ms Kathryn Isaacs, Registered Nurse, Eastern Palliative Care
19:00 - 23:00The Palliative Care Australia Gala Dinner and National Palliative Care Awards Presentation [More Info]
Plenary Room 1&2