Implementing a Palliative Approach to Care
Toward Implementing a Palliative Care Approach throughout Healthcare in Ontario:
Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework & Ontario Palliative Care Competency Framework
Spring is a time of renewal, refocus, and for Spring 2019, the release of two comprehensive frameworks for Hospice Palliative Care, in Ontario. Both documents are the result of collaborative, interprofessional consultation throughout the province.
The Ontario Palliative Care Competency Framework recognizes the interprofessional and team-based nature of providing hospice and palliative care. Palliative care competencies are outlined for generalist-level hospice palliative care providers, speciality healthcare providers and specialist-level hospice palliative care providers. Read more about the Palliative Care competencies that align with your role.
Timely for this moment in the Ontario health care sector, the Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework, offers recommendations to the healthcare system for the integration of hospice palliative care service delivery, through primary care teams, acute care, community care, long-term care, hospices and specialized hospice palliative care services.
Palliative care is not the responsibility of specialist palliative care and teams. All health professionals who provide any form of care to patients with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses should be able to provide basic primary- or generalist-level palliative care, also known as the “Palliative Care Approach”
Primary-Level Palliative Care
Most palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care can be provided at this primary, or generalized, level. It requires basic palliative & EOL care competencies and the support of palliative care specialist teams
Specialist-Level Palliative Care
A smaller number of patients require specialist-level care services. Palliative care specialists also provide consultation and education support to generalists providing a Palliative Care Approach
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