Welcome
to EMRPCC website
Eastern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium (EMRPCC)
is an alliance of palliative care providers in the Eastern
Metropolitan Region (Local Government Areas of Boroondara, Knox,
Manningham,
Maroondah, Monash, Whitehorse and Yarra Ranges).
Member agencies include: Eastern Health, Eastern Palliative
Care, St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne), Fernlea House, RDNS
and Divisions of General Practice.
The Consortium’s aspiration is that residents of the Eastern
Region with a terminal condition, their families and carer’s
have access to a high quality palliative care system that fosters
innovation and provides coordinated care and support that is
responsive to their needs.
There are eight Palliative Care Consortiums
funded by the Victorian Department of Health (DH),
covering metropolitan and
rural Victoria. The Eastern Metropolitan Region has several
working groups providing an integrated and coordinated
approach to consortium
project areas The Consortium will continue to actively
develop, strengthen and promote palliative care in the region.
 Gain RACGP QA & CPD points- GP Education opportunity 2010
The EMRPCC is offering an educational opportunity to GPs during July and August 2010, like the waterfall the information will flow freely each of the three nights.
The sessions target the specific needs of GPs, moving beyond the basic principles into the more advanced or challenging areas of general practice.
The first session deals with pain and its pharmaceutical management and has Dr Jenny Philip and Ms Sandy Scholes presenting. Jenny is the Deputy Director of Palliative Care at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Sandy is a Pharmacist who is part of the community palliative care service at Calvary Health Care- Bethlehem. The second session covers Renal Disease and gold standards in palliative care with Ms Fiona Spargo and Dr Mark Boughey being the experts on the night tackling all the tough questions. The third and final session looks at the challenges faced in addressing end stage cardiac disease. Dr Gary Gordon( cardiologist), Dr Juli Moran ( Palliative Care Physic ...[Go to full story]
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