To ensure the provision of high quality palliative care, it is important that services be able to determine and measure the impact of their service delivery, and the outcomes they offer people with a life-limiting illness, their families and carers.
The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a voluntary quality initiative to assist palliative care services improve practice and meet the Standards for Providing Quality Palliative Care for all Australians developed by Palliative Care Australia. The project is being funded by the Australian Government over a three year period from June 2005.
PCOC supports continuous improvement in palliative care and provides an opportunity for service providers to collect routine outcome measures. It also aims to develop and support a national benchmarking system that will contribute to improved palliative care outcomes. Participation is open to palliative care service providers across Australia.
The project is being managed by a consortium of four universities led by the University of Wollongong's Centre for Health Service Development.
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Page Author: Jennifer Tieman, Knowledge Network Director
This page was created 29 November 2006 and is due for review in November 2008
Last updated on 22 March 2008