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Hospice New Zealand

Welcome, and thank you for visiting the Hospice New Zealand, My Health Hub webpage.

Hospice New Zealand is the national organisation representing all hospice services in New Zealand.

Our purpose is to lead and support the hospice movement in New Zealand, working to ensure equality of access and consistent delivery of palliative and end-of-life care for New Zealanders.

We are a small, dedicated team who work in partnership with all member services to ensure people needing end-of-life hospice care are well supported. All of our hospice members are independently governed and managed at a local level.

We are delighted to be working in partnership with Mobile Health Group to deliver the Palliative Care Lecture Series. This education opportunity is designed for all healthcare professionals with an interest in palliative care.

The lectures will be delivered via webinar on the first Thursday of every month from February to December from 7.30am-8.30am.

For further information regarding education opportunities, visit Hospice New Zealand

Hospice NZ website

The Fundamentals of Palliative Care

Hospice New Zealand Syringe Driver Competency Programme

Webinars coming soon

MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE – END OF LIFE CARE EXPERIENCES

Thursday 5 February | 7.30-8.30am

In this webinar data will be presented from the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Insight Questionnaire Research of people with MND (pwMND), family members of pwMND, and bereaved family members. The primary focus is on end of life, including hospice, assisted dying and preparation for end of life.

Recorded webinars to view

PCARN – BRINGING PALLIATIVE CARE RESEARCHERS TOGETHER

Cheryl will discuss the establishment of the newly formed Palliative Care Aotearoa Research Network (PCARN). PCARN is working to create a network of clinical palliative care researchers in Aotearoa to help link existing researchers with those early career researchers ...

DYING WELL IN OLD AGE

This presentation will discuss the results of the “End of life with dementia research (ELDER)” that explored the quality of end-of-life care for those living in residential aged care. It will also highlight the changing demographic and complex nature of end-of-life care in old age and offer ideas for an integrated gerontology/palliative care approach ...

KEEPING WHĀNAU MĀORI FRONT AND CENTRE AT END OF LIFE

Tess and her team use arts-based knowledge translation methods to disseminate research findings to whanau Māori and health professionals. She is a member of the Ministry of Health’s newly formed Palliative Care Advisory Group. In this presentation Tess will reflect on the tikanga (customs), and preferences expressed by whanau Māori at the end of life ...

A MODEL OF CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE COPD – WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE SHOW

Amanda is the Head of Department of Medicine at the Otago Medical School in Christchurch. In 2020 she commenced a PhD investigating end-stage chronic lung disease and their health care network, with the long-term goal of evaluating a model of care ...

INTEGRATING CLINICAL AROMATHERAPY IN PALLIATIVE CARE

Carol specialises in clinical aromatherapy and is a dedicated practitioner and advocate of evidence-based complementary therapies for patients with life-limiting illness. She has published numerous articles on subjects relating to aromatherapy in oncology and palliative care and is the author of the newly released textbook, Integrating Clinical Aromatherapy in Palliative Care ...

MAURI MATE: A MĀORI PALLIATIVE CARE FRAMEWORK

Tina is of Te Ati Awa, Ngati Toa Rangatira, Ngati Raukawa, Muaupoko, Ngai Tahu and English descent. With over 40 years’ experience in public health, Tina has found success in bridging the gap between cultural groups ...

GI SYMPTOMS & BOWEL OBSTRUCTION IN PALLIATIVE CARE

Professor Katherine Clark is Clinical Director for Palliative Care (Northern Sydney Local Health District Palliative Care Network) and Senior Clinical Advisor in Palliative Care to the NSW Ministry of Health. Katherine is also the clinical lead for the national Palliative Care Outcomes Collaborative (PCOC) based at the University of Wollongong and holds academic appointments at the University of Sydney, University of Technology and University of Wollongong ...

SPIRITUAL CARE – IS HOSPICE LEADING THE WAY?

Nurturing the spiritual well-being of healthcare staff is crucial as it has a direct impact on patients and their families. In hospice and palliative care, spirituality is explicitly acknowledged and included as a vital aspect of care ...

DIGNITY IN PALLIATIVE CARE

Dignity is important for patients at the end of life. In this lecture, Dr Best will discuss conceptualisations of dignity and its relationship to dying. She will describe what defines dignity, and how it can be upheld in palliative care practice ...

PALLIATIVE CARE FOR PATIENTS AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE – WHERE ARE WE NOW?

This presentation considers the role of palliative care in the care of people with neurological disease – care provided at all levels, primary care, neurology teams and specialist palliative care. The development of collaboration across all areas and involvement in multidisciplinary teams should enable the palliative care approach throughout the disease progression to be more widely available, and patients and families to have an improved quality of life and quality of dying ...

THE CHILDREN’S PALLIATIVE CARE INITIATIVE

Dr. Doherty will discuss palliative care for children, including the common conditions and trajectories for children with serious illnesses. She will discuss best practices in communication with children and their caregivers ...

TOO FEW AND TOO FAR – THE NEED TO GROW MĀORI LEADERSHIP IN THE HOSPICE SECTOR

Vanessa shares Mary Potter Hospice’s Capability Framework for Cultural Liaisons. She will share insights from kaimahi Maori with a view to understanding how we might attract and further foster this workforce ...

TAMARIKI AND RANGATAHIS GRIEF IS EVERYONES BUSINESS

Dr Amanda Evans is a Paediatric Palliative Care Specialist working at Mary Potter Hospice caring for both paediatric and adult patients. She is a leader in paediatric palliative care in Aotearoa being on the executive of ANZSPM representing paediatrics ...

LIVING & DYING ON THE STREETS – PALLIATIVE CARE FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND STRUCTURAL VUNERABILITY

After a transformative experience providing care to a Toronto homeless man, Dr. Dosani was motivated to develop Palliative Education And Care for the Homeless (PEACH). The PEACH program delivers community-based hospice palliative care to society’s most vulnerable individuals regardless of their housing status or factors such as poverty or substance use ...

THE KŌWHAI PROGRAMME AND THE ENDING LIFE WELL PODCAST

A nurse for nearly forty years, Denise started in the palliative field in the 1990’s. Completing a Master’s Degree in palliative care in 2013, she has since held nursing, clinical leadership and educational roles in palliative care ...

UNDERSTANDING LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY WISHES FOR PALLIATVE CARE

Nick will explain how LGBTQ+ people may experience poorer health outcomes and present some of the international evidence relating to palliative care for LGBTQ+ people. He will provide an overview of his research to investigate palliative care with LGBTQ+ people in NSW, including key findings and implications from this research, including for services in New Zealand ...

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