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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 NZ Syringe Driver Course for Health Professionals

Webinars coming soon

Recorded webinars to view

THE GIFT OF EYE TISSUE DONATION AT THE END OF LIFE

Many New Zealanders are not aware that eye donation is an option, and it is not widely discussed or offered. Corneal transplantation has restored vision for hundreds of New Zealanders, and this is why eye donation is commonly referred to as the ‘gift of sight’ ...

MANAGING OEDEMA IN PALLIATIVE CARE

This webinar presented by Rebecca Aburn discusses Compression Therapy and active and palliative treatment options ...

PALLIATIVE CARE IN RENAL FAILURE

Dr Brennan is a Palliative Care Physician based at St George and Calvary Hospitals Sydney. He is employed within the Renal Department at St George Hospital in a Kidney Supportive Care service ...

THE ROLE OF PARAMEDICS IN PALLIATIVE CARE

This presentation will outline palliative paramedicine in NZ, including caseload, trends, practice levels, service delivery and clinical practice guidelines. An overview of initiatives and challenges are provided, along with some examples of best practice collaboration with traditional palliative care providers. Case examples are used to illustrate themes ...

CREATING COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES & CITIES

Allan Kellehear is Professor in Health & Social Care at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK. Allan has worked as a full professor in Australia, Japan, the UK, and the USA and is widely recognised as founder and one of the leading advocates of the international public health movement in palliative care, also known as the ‘compassionate community’ or the ‘health promoting palliative care’ approach ...

THE VALUE OF DEATH CARE AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF PALLIATIVE CARE

In this webinar, Claire will share her vision for a world where every person is treated with respect, kindness and compassion in their living, dying and after death care and her commitment to reclaiming community based, life and death care practices which ultimately lead to healthier bereavement ...

SOCIAL WORKERS STORIES

This webinar presentation will explore the critical roles of palliative care social work and core social work skills which play a pivotal role in: Addressing the emotional and psychological needs of both patients and their families, facilitating difficult conversations and providing holistic, compassionate care in end-of-life scenarios ...

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING IN THE PURSUIT OF HEALTH EQUITY FOR MĀORI

Advance care planning encourages and cultivates meaningful conversations about future healthcare wishes among whānau, friends, and healthcare teams. At the centre of these discussions is what matters most to people—their personal tikanga ...

SUPPORTING THE SPIRITUAL CARE OF A CHILD AND YOUNG PERSON WITH A LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS

In this webinar Mark and Jan will consider the role of rituals and rites of passage, including meaning making, healing in transitions and threshold spaces, and caring for the spirit. In their work, there is an emphasis on wholeness in the absence of cure ...

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 ...

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