A National Palliative Care Project funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Partners
Palliative Care ECHO is made possible through the co-operation of many collaborators across multiple organisations
Project Team
| Dr Helen Haydon is a Senior Research Fellow and Registered Psychologist at the University of Queensland. She has national standing, and an emerging international reputation, as a digital health researcher with a focus on aged and palliative care, psycho-oncology and carer wellbeing. She leads 3 applied nationwide digital health research programs: 1/ Palliative Care ECHO, a Federally funded National Palliative Care Project that connects services and upskills health professionals across Australia in palliative care; 2/ Elder ECHO, a telementoring program to support the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation’s (NACCHO) Elder Care Support workforce in the delivery of Culturally safe aged care and; 3/ Caring for the Carer, an online intervention for carers of people with brain tumour. http://caringforthecarer.org.au/ |
Partners
Liz has been a palliative care physician for over 20 years and established the largest multidisciplinary palliative care service in Queensland. She is currently Director of Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Support and Pharmacy Service and the national caring@home project, and Co-Director of Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning and PallConsult.
Heather is an experienced registered nurse and midwife with a wide range of skills specialising in strategic and executive leadership, primary health care, and First Nations health. Heather has worked as a front-line remote area nurse and midwife delivering comprehensive primary health care, including women’s health, in remote NT communities. Currently Chief Remote Area Nurse with CRANAplus, he is also an experienced Board Director and current Chair of the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) and Vice-President of the Australian College of Nursing (ACN).
David is a palliative medicine consultant and Medical Head of Unit and delights in supporting the Northern Adelaide Palliative Service and Adelaide University Medical School in both communication and palliative care. He has had the privilege of studying communication nationally, and internationally in New Zealand and USA. Recognising the enormous benefits to his own practice/patient care from studying communication deliberately, he seeks opportunities to encourage and inspire others to grow in their communication. He aims to improve clinician confidence and person centered care and has spoken and delivered workshops to multidisciplinary teams nationally. He teaches from example, reinforcing none of us are perfect (and that is ok) and communication is an open ended skillset, cultivating a learning and teaching approach.
The COH research team are conducting the evaluation of this service. Their bios can be found here:
Collaborators
