Sector news

National Palliative Care Project Coordinator, Hannah Morgan from LGBTIQ+ Health Australia discusses the importance to recognise diversity in the LGBTIQ+ community for inclusive practice in palliative care.

Many people from diverse backgrounds find understanding and accessing palliative care support and services difficult. CEO of Multicultural Communities Council of SA (MCCSA) Helena Kyriazopoulos, discusses how the new CareSearch portal makes it easier for diverse communities to access information.

In the fourth blog for our 2021 Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Associate Professor Odette Spruijt shares insights about Project Hamrahi, and how it helped strengthen palliative care services in India through ongoing and mutual education.

In our fourth SA Palliative Care 2020 Grants Program blog, Mr Peter Laintoll, Lyell McEwin Volunteer Association, in collaboration with Mr Kamal Dahal, Member of the South Australian Bhutanese Association along with Professor Gregory Crawford, Northern Adelaide Palliative Care Service and The University of Adelaide, Associate Professor Ann Dadich of Western Sydney University and Dr Aileen Collier of University of Auckland and RePADD at Flinders University discuss how their project will investigate what safe and high-quality palliative and end-of-life care means from the perspective of Bhutanese, Syrian, and Afghani communities in Northern Adelaide.

In our second SA Palliative Care 2020 Grants Program blog, Tracey Watters, Project Coordinator of the Palliative Care Pathways and Partnerships at Motor Neurone Disease (MND) SA, writes why improving palliative care for people with MND is important and how the project will help.

More understanding and education is required so that LGBTIQ+ people can feel confident that they will be able to feel safe to access palliative care. In the final blog for our National Palliative Care Project series, Alex Taylor, Project Officer and Hannah Morgan, Project Coordinators at National LGBTI Health Alliance, discuss how the new National LGBTI Health Alliance Palliative Care Project will work to improve the knowledge of care providers.