Palliative Care and Anticipatory Medicines Workshop (GPs)

Most Australians nominate home as their preferred place for end-of-life care. General Practitioners (GPs) are essential to this outcome. GPs play the critical role of proactively recognising and planning for impending end of life, as well as ensuring appropriate prescriptions and medicine orders are available.

Queensland Health has commissioned palliPharm to increase capacity in community-based aged care palliative care. As part of palliPharm, CPD accredited educational workshops are being conducted to upskill GPs and pharmacists on end of life, palliative care and anticipatory medicines to ensure patients receive optimal symptom management at home. Workshops will be conducted around Queensland.

Workshops will:

• Equip GPs with up-to-date knowledge concerning the end-of-life journey, understanding of pharmacological management for palliative symptoms and new resources available to support community palliative patients
• Encourage collaboration between GPs and pharmacists
• Attract 4 QI & CPD points from RACGP or 2 PDP hours from ACRRM
• Be facilitated by Proj LIz Reymond and other specialist palliative care staff from the Metro South Palliative Care Service.

Workshop dates and registrations:

Virtual workshops will be offered until May 2021 and there is no registration fee to attend these events.

• Tuesday, 16th February 2021
• Wednesday, 17th March 2021
• Tuesday, 13th April 2021
• Wednesday, 12th May 2021