Network face-to-face with other local clinicians, enjoy a two-course dinner, and hear from Dr Ken Marr and the Tweed/Byron/Ballina Palliative Care Service about ways you can best support patients with a life limiting illness. This event provides a platform to hear from a range of different services that make up and wrap around the multidisciplinary palliative care team. Catch up with colleagues, ask lots of questions, openly discuss local palliative care referral options, and dine in style at Beef and Beach Restaurant Lennox Head.

Learning objectives

• Describe the potential benefits from earlier referral to palliative care.
• Recognise who is eligible for the Tweed/Byron/Ballina Palliative Care Service and what other services are available locally, including assistance with daily living, respite care and bereavement support.
• Identify the medical, cultural and spiritual aspects of palliative care to maximise the opportunities available within a multidisciplinary palliative care team.
• Explore initial treatment approaches to manage somatic pain, neuropathic pain, and visceral pain.
• Support patients to reduce their length of hospital stay and die in the place of their choice.

Speakers

Dr Ken Marr, Senior Staff Specialist Palliative Care Medicine and Clinical Lead Richmond/Clarence Palliative Care Service

Lea-Anne Tuaoi, Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, Tweed/Byron/Ballina Palliative Care Service

Dr Srivalli Nagarajan, Project and Evaluation Coordinator – The Advance Project – Initiating Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning in General Practice

Following the main presentation we will hear from a range of other supports as part of an open forum discussion on palliative care in the Ballina and Byron region.