DOWNLOAD WORD DOCUMENT: HRG Meeting Notes – End of Life 12 Feb 2025 Meeting Summary This HRG salon explored the policy challenges and opportunities for end-of-life care from two distinct perspectives: The Care of the Frail Elderly; and Voluntary Assisted Dying. 1. Care of the Frail, Elderly Terminally Ill Prof Ken Hillman led a discussion on the “Conveyor Belt” for terminally ill older people. He highlighted the inefficiencies and inhumanities associated with how the Australian healthcare system provides care
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Download Paper: BMJ 2024; 387 doi: Original Link: BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2815 (Published 23 December 2024)
2024 Voluntary Assisted Dying Convention Report (PDF) Original Source: Go Gentle Australia Website
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From: https://www.ausdoc.com.au/opinion/my-fit-and-active-patient-woke-up-to-find-an-nfr-on-her-hospital-record-the-scourge-of-ageism/ My patient presented to a private hospital, haemorrhaging, and was assessed as too unstable to be managed there. She was transferred to the ED of a public hospital and taken straight into resuscitation. She was asked if she wanted to be resuscitated. “It depends on what I have,” she said. At that point no-one knew. She was asked if she had an advance care directive. “Yes,” she told them. Did she bring it with her? No,
By Harriet Grayson in Health Services Daily From: https://www.healthservicesdaily.com.au/doctor-supported-death-squads-make-an-appearance/21901 It was just another day at the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into Healthcare Spending, where today’s death squad is tomorrow’s complex care committee. Establishing hospital or LHD-based committees to make decisions about further interventions for complex patients would be beneficial in reducing low-value care but carry a reputation of being “doctor-supported death squads”, an inquiry has heard. A senior clinician with Mid North Coast LHD told the NSW Special