Caring Communities
Program
For information about the Caring Communities Program
please click on one of the following links:
Introduction
This program is an initiative by the Commonwealth Department
of Health and Ageing designed to improve the quality
of palliative care in the community by assisting
families, carers and health service providers to give
better support to people who are dying.
Tenders were invited in October 2002 for funding of
between $50,000 and approximately $200,000 for those
organisations with an interest in improving the quality
of palliative care in the community. This opportunity
stimulated a lot of interest from various organisations
and approximately 270 submissions were received nationally.
Thirty-seven projects were funded, totalling around
$4.7 million over 4 years.
These 37 projects address several ‘themes’
associated with palliative care, including:
- Improving community awareness of palliative care;
- Supporting dying people and their families;
- Increasing awareness of palliative care as an integral
part of the health care system;
- Delivering education to support professionals providing
palliative care services;
- Creating effective partnerships between palliative
care providers, other health service providers and
health systems, to coordinate care for dying people.
Caring
Communities Program Final Evaluation Reports
The two final evaluation reports for the Caring Communities
Program are available in pdf format by clicking on the
links below:
Quinsey
K, Williams K, Fildes D, Masso M, Senior K, Yeatman
H and Eagar K (2006) Caring Communities: evaluation
of a national palliative care program. Centre for Health
Service Development, University of Wollongong.
Williams
K, Quinsey K, Fildes D, Senior K and Masso M (2006)
Caring Communities: a description of the 37 projects
of a national palliative care program. Centre for Health
Service Development, University of Wollongong.
Caring Communities Program Discussion
Page
Registration
Page (for first-time users)
Discussion
Page (user name and password required)
National Workshop - 14th/15th
May 2003
Professor
Kathy Eagar's PowerPoint Presentation
Rita
Evans' PowerPoint Presentation
Emeritus
Professor Ian Maddocks Presentation
(large file warning - 1mb)
National
Workshop Evaluation Report
National Workshop - 20th/21st
October 2004
Professor
Kathy Eagar's PowerPoint Presentation
Rita
Evans' PowerPoint Presentation
National
Workshop Evaluation Report
Evaluation Bulletins
Evaluation
Bulletin Number 1 - April 2003 (Introduction to the
Evaluators)
Evaluation
Bulletin Number 2 - June 2003 (Ethics)
Evaluation
Bulletin Number 3 - July 2003 (Qualitative Research
Methods)
Evaluation
Bulletin Number 4 - August 2003 (The Literature Review)
Evaluation
Bulletin Number 5 - August 2003 (Indigenous Issues in
Palliative Care)
Evaluation
Bulletin Number 6 - June 2004 (Evaluation Findings –
the Story So Far)
Evaluation
Bulletin Number 7 - December 2004 (Second National Workshop
Evaluation)
Evaluation Tools
The following Tool Kit is part of the Caring Communities
Palliative Care (CCP) Evaluation Strategy. The tools
are designed to assess the impact and outcomes of palliative
care for ‘consumers’ (patients, families,
carers, friends, communities) and providers (professionals
and volunteers), as well as the impacts on the system
as a whole (ie, structures and processes, networks,
relationships) in a way that is systematic across the
program.
The Tool Kit is available to you in both Word and Pdf
format by clicking on the links below:
The
Caring Communities: Evaluation Tool Kit: A compendium
of tools to aid in the evaluation of palliative care
projects [457kb].
The
Caring Communities: Evaluation Tool Kit: A compendium
of tools to aid in the evaluation of palliative care
projects (Word version 593kb).
The Griffith Area Palliative Care
Service
(The GAPS Project)
The Centre for Health Service Development was commissioned
to evaluate the Griffith Area Palliative Care Service
(GAPS) project. Three reports have been produced for
this evaluation. The first report described the evaluation
framework and gave a baseline assessment of the project
at the end of its planning phase, coinciding with its
official launch. The second report covered the changes
implemented in the delivery of palliative care services
over the first nine months of the project. This final
report describes the achievements of the project after
18 months.
The three reports in this evaluation series are available
in pdf format by clicking on the link below:
Owen
A, Perkins D, Senior K and Eagar K (2001) The Griffith
Area Palliative Care Service: a baseline assessment
of its evaluability, sustainability and generalisability.
Centre for Health Service Development, University of
Wollongong.
Owen
A, Perkins D, Senior K, Cromwell D, Eagar K and Gordon
R (2002) The Griffith Area Palliative Care Service:
Second Evaluation Report. Centre for Health Service
Development, University of Wollongong.
Cromwell
D, Senior K, Owen A, Gordon R, and Eagar K (2003) Can
the National Palliative Care Strategy be Translated
into a Model of Care that works for Rural Australia?
An Answer from the Griffith Area Palliative Care Service
(GAPS) Experience. Centre for Health Service Development,
University of Wollongong.
Palliative Care Links
CareSearch
- CareSearch is the result of a project funded by the
Australian Government to improve the evidence available
to palliative care clinical practitioners, researchers
and educators nationally.
The project covers a period from 1980 to the present
to create an anthology of works that are otherwise not
available electronically. This anthology includes:
- abstracts from proceedings of scientific meetings
(each of the more than 1500 abstracts has been evaluated
by two independent reviewers in order to establish
the level of evidence)
- government reports
- theses and treatises related to palliative care
from Australian universities
- refereed journal articles not catalogued on general
medical databases.
CHSD Palliative
Care Research - The CHSD has conducted
a number of research projects focusing on palliative
care, and information regarding these projects is available
on this Palliative Care Research site.
Palliative
Care Outcomes Collaboration - For detailed
information on the palliative care outcomes work at
CHSD, please visit the PCOC website.
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