Care for patients who have active progressive life limiting conditions.
Palliative care provides support for people in our community with any type of advanced, progressive illness that no longer responds to curative treatment. This nursing and related services support aims to help patients Live Every Moment and improve the quality of life for patients and families through the prevention and relief of suffering, pain and other symptoms – physical, psychological, social and spiritual.
Who receives Palliative Care ?
Eligibility for Palliative Care is for those with a life expectancy of approximately 12 months or less, and who need more support than the primary care teams alone can provide.
To download the Referral Criteria for Adult Palliative Care Services in Midland area please click here.
Lake Taupō Hospice accepts initial referrals from GPs, medical specialists and other healthcare professional agencies or directly from patients or their family/whanau. Each referral is assessed by our clinical staff in collaboration with the patient’s own doctor. Referrals are accepted through the process outlined in the Lake Taupo Hospice Specialist Palliative Care Services Admission/Transfer Process. Patients whose health status plateaus or stabilises may be discharged to primary care services and can be readmitted at any time .
Community Medication Authority Form
This form is to used by prescribers (Doctors, Nurse Practitioners etc) to enable hospice community nurses authority to administer medications already dispensed to patients. To download the most recent Community medication authority form please click here.
It doesn’t matter who you are, what you believe in or where you live in our district – hospice care is available free of charge.
Medical Palliative Specialist Services
Lake Taupō Hospice has a visiting palliative medicine specialist service for face to face consults at an outpatient clinic service, held at Lake Taupō Hospice or in the patients own home, once a month.
A Palliative Medicine Specialist is available for advice 24/7 via the Waikato Regional Palliative Centre 07 839 8691 ask for Palliative Specialist on duty/call.
Waikato Palliative Care Project ECHO is now live
Project ECHO transforms the way education and knowledge is shared, by connecting healthcare professionals in the Waikato area, especially those in our more remote communities.
Each monthly session runs from 7.30 to 8.30am, it includes 15 minutes of education presented by a topic expert, followed by one case-based interactive discussions. Each TeleECHO clinic is facilitated by a multidisciplinary specialist hub team on the third Thursday of every month.
To join any of the TeleECHO clinics please contact Andrea Jones: mailto:andrea.jones@hospicewaikato.org.nz
For more information and to view past recorded sessions, please go to the website: https://www.hospicewaikato.org.nz/education-item/project-echo
Palliative Care Clinical Support Guidelines
Lake Taupō Hospice Trust has adopted and endorsed the clinical symptom management guidelines utilised by the Waikato Regional Palliative Specialist Centre. These can be found in the Palliative Care Handbook: Guidelines for clinical management and symptom control 9th Edition 2019.
Health care professionals are able to download a pdf version
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