Palliative Care After Stroke

In 2008 the Department of Health engaged Melbourne Health to pilot the ‘Improving access to palliative care for people who have had a stroke and their carers’ project.
 
This initiative was funded by the Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, under the National Palliative Care Program.

The "Stroke Palliative Approach Pathway" is now completed and the National Stroke Foundation is pleased to be partnering with the Victorian Department of Health Palliative Care unit and Melbourne Health to assist in its distribution to Stroke Clinicians.

To access the Implementation Guide please click here.

‘Improving access to palliative care for people who have had a stroke and their carers'

Louise Weir, a Stroke Nurse Practitioner at the Royal Melbourne Hospital spoke at the Stroke Society Australasia Scientific meeting in 2010. She presented on the following topic: ‘Improving access to palliative care for people who have had a stroke and their carers’. Louise spoke to Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of International Journal of Stroke. The available podcast talks about the background and aims for the palliative stroke project piloted at Melbourne Health. There is also a discussion about some of the key predictors of mortality for haemorrhagic and ischaemic stroke patients. It provides a review of the principles of palliative care and a discussion of why this is such an important area in stroke management. It discusses the development of the Stroke Palliative Approach Pathway (SPAP) and other resources that were developed to support the use of the SPAP. The podcast can be used to support the wider implementation of the Stroke Palliative Approach Pathway in other health services.

To listen to the podcast click here.
 

Acute Audit Tool - Training Session
 

The National Stroke Foundation Acute Audit comprises two parts, an organisational survey examining the resources to support stroke care and a clinical audit of 40 case notes of patients receiving care between 1 July and 31 December 2010. These cases are entered into an online audit tool.

Audit training

A training session has been recorded to assist you with completing the audit using the Audit Web Tool.  Please click here to access the audit training session.

This session will explain how to enter your sites data correctly.

If you have problems running the Training Tool on your PC: Please click here to install the codec needed to view these types of files, to do this:
 
1. Press save and save to your desk top.
2. Click open the GoToMeeting icon on your desk top.
3. Press Run (you will recieve a message to say that the Codec Download is complete)
4. Please click here to access the webinar.

In addition, a training manual has been developed. To access this manual click here.

Accessing the Audit Tool

Once you have completed the training, please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call Elizabeth Ritchie on T +61 3 9670 1000 to obtain your site codes and passwords
 
More Information

If you have any questions or problems with accessing training session or entering your data onto the audit tool, please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call Elizabeth Ritchie on T +61 3 9670 1000 _