Australia
Platinum Partners
Australian eHealth Research Centre CSIRO
Australia
Brisbane
Services Offered
The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) is CSIRO’s digital health research program – enabling the digital transformation of healthcare to improve services and clinical treatment for Australians. We have world leading capability in areas such as clinical terminology and data interoperability; health data analytics; clinical image analysis; genomics data analytics and engineering; biostatistics, mobile health, tele-health and health internet of things, amongst many others. We work with many collaborators across the healthcare system to improve diagnosis and treatment across Australia and internationally.
SPICT Uses
The end goal is to digitise the SPICT tool so as to integrate with current aged care facility practices. It is hoped that this will improve the provision of end-of-life care for those receiving it and those delivering it.
The AEHRC CSIRO are working in partnership with the Queensland University of Technology to deliver this project.
BaptistCare NSW & ACT
Australia
New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
Services Offered
As previously outlined.
SPICT Uses
Screening on admission and Registered nurses identifying deterioration.
ELDAC funded programs promote SPICT.
CareSearch, Flinders University
Australia
Adelaide
Services Offered
CareSearch/palliAGED is a program funded by the Australian Government to enhance the provision of evidence-based palliative care to the Australian population by providing online information and resources to health and aged care workers, and to the broader community. As part of this the project manages two websites to disseminate information and support care needs across the life course (www.caresearch.com.au) and in aged care (www.palliaged.com.au).
A strong focus of the program is to enhance the identification and synthesis of evidence to support best practice palliative care including the use of evidence based tools.
SPICT Uses
In addition to the synthesis of evidence we provide practice relevant summaries which include SPICT as part of a suite of validated tools to support evidence-based best practice in palliative care.
caring@home
Australia
Eight Mile Plains QLD
Services Offered
The caring@home project aims to support quality and timely end of life care for patients who choose to be cared for and die at home, if possible.
It is an Australian- Government funded project that continues to develop and provide free nationally consistent, practical, and evidence-based clinical resources and education for health professionals that supports:
– Pro-active planning for end- of- life care
– Families and carers to help manage breakthrough symptoms at home
– Patients to be cared for and die (if possible) in their place of choice.
SPICT Uses
caring@home recommends that the SPICT tool be used as a part of the trigger to commence care planning for the last 12 months of life as per the Palliative and End-of-life Framework: an evidence-based, best practice framework developed by caring@home.
Carinity – Baptist Community Services
Australia
Brisbane
Services Offered
We are an aged care organization Carinity- Baptist Community Service, currently with 11 Residential aged care services are working to improve our palliative care approach. Hence the request to use this form electronically and load onto iCare . We would like to use it as part of our initial and on-going assessment of residents so we can track current trajectory of residents care
SPICT Uses
We currently have a partnership with ELDAC ( palliative care) and it was their suggestion that we uses this tool to ensure we follow best practice ideals
Darling Downs Hospital Health Service
Australia
Darling Downs, Queensland
Services Offered
Darling Downs Health provides public hospital and healthcare services to nearly 300,000 people from 29 facilities, which includes one large regional referral hospital, one extended inpatient mental health service, three medium sized regional hub hospitals, twelve rural hospitals, three multipurpose health services, three community outpatient clinics and six residential aged care facilities. Darling Downs Health also has a learning, research and innovation role. Darling Downs Health partners with a number of tertiary education institutions to provide undergraduate and postgraduate clinical placements.
The Darling Downs Health region is a large and diverse geographic area covering some 90,000 square kilometres. We are one of the largest employers in the region, employing more than 5,000 people, and managing a budget of more than $750 million annually.
Toowoomba Hospital is a secondary hospital and is the largest hospital in Darling Downs Health providing ambulatory care (including Emergency Department, Specialist Outpatient Services, Day Procedures Unit Dialysis and Oncology services), acute inpatient care including Medical, Surgical, Orthopaedic, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Special Care Nursery, Intensive and Coronary Care, Theatre, Geriatric Adult Rehabilitation and Stroke Service (GARSS), Aged Care and Palliative Care.
Further details about Darling Downs’ other hospitals and health services can be found at: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns/locations
SPICT Uses
The 2019 SPICT and SPICT-4ALL tools will be modified to include the Darling Downs Health logo and adopted along with Using SPICT guides tailored to the local health needs and services in Darling Downs Health area.
The SPICT tools will be used to assist clinicians to identify patients who might benefit from end-of-life care planning. The RED-MAP framework ,resources and teaching videos will be utilised to facilitate discussions about end-of-life care.
The tools will be available to in-hospital and community-based clinicians, including General Practitioners working with Darling Downs Health.
East Metropolitan Health Service
Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Services Offered
East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) comprises an extensive hospital and health service network that aims to maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of more than 725,500 Western Australians in its catchment area.
Our hospital network works together to provide a combination of tertiary, secondary and specialist health care services including emergency and critical care, state trauma, elective and emergency surgery, general medical, mental health, inpatient and outpatient services, aged care, palliative care, rehabilitation and women’s, children’s and neonates services.
EMHS recognises the multifaceted challenges associated with the different stages of the end-of-life journey and is committed to person-centre care while a person is living with a life-limiting condition and in the lead up to their death, as well as support for the person’s carer and family, including after the person’s death.
SPICT Uses
EMHS plans to use the SPICT as part of multi-tiered education approach around end-of-life and palliative care across the service; making the SPICT available to clinical staff to support the timely identification of people who would benefit from Goals of Patient Care discussions and referral to palliative care; and in the longer term, integrating the SPICT into systematic approaches to caring for people nearing end-of-life.
ELDAC (End of Life Directions for Aged Care)
Australia
Sydney
Services Offered
End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) is a project that seeks to improve the care of older Australians through advance care planning activities and palliative care connections. ELDAC is supporting the aged care workforce to provide quality palliative care through:
1. Sharing free palliative care and advance care planning information, guidance, and resources that
are evidence-based on the ELDAC website;
2. Developing innovative palliative care technology solutions for aged care;
3. Building workforce capacity through education;
4. Creating partnerships between specialist palliative care and aged care services;
5. Providing evidence and resources to support system capability.
The ELDAC project is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.
SPICT Uses
ELDAC recommends through our website and engagement with the aged care sector the SPICT as part of best practice for end of life care across all aged care settings. The SPICT is part of ELDAC’s suite of Common Clinical Tools that are evidenced-based and free to use. We also suggest that our aged care service partners participating in the ELDAC Linkages Program use the SPICT in their practice.
Elderbloom Community Care Centres
Australia
55 Belgrade Road Wanneroo W.A. 6065
Services Offered
aged care residential care services for 155 residents across 3 facilities.
Services include memory support (dementia) units, clinical and personal care, Palliative Care.
SPICT Uses
To assist with identifying our residents’ trajectory stage to ensure effective holistic approach and outcomes based on residents assessed needs and wishes.
End-of-Life Essentials
Australia
Flinders University
Services Offered
End-of-Life Essentials is an Australian government funded project offering free peer-reviewed online education modules on health care at the end of life in acute hospitals for nurses, doctors and allied health professionals.
A range of implementation tools are also available to assist managers and clinicians to implement a unified approach to strategies and processes which will inform end-of-life care.
End-of-Life Essentials is based on the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care, and the Commission provides ongoing advice to the project.
SPICT Uses
The SPICT is included in resources of evidence-based and useful tools to assist health care professionals identify patients who are at the end of life and enhance the safety and quality of services provided.
PallConsult, Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative
Australia
Metro South Palliative Care Service, Metro South Health, Brisbane, Queensland
Services Offered
The PallConsult service, is designed to boost capacity of local health care teams to deliver high-quality person-centred palliative and end-of-life care. The service provides specialist palliative care 24/7 telephone advice to clinicians; as well as providing tailored education, vocational training, mentoring and resources for health and aged care professionals across Queensland.
SPICT Uses
The SPICT is included in PallConsult education, training and mentoring as part of evidenced-based resources and tools to support and be used by clinicians as part of their assessment to identify patients who would benefit from palliative care.
The Bethanie Group
Australia
Western Australia
Services Offered
Our Aged Care Facilities offer person-centred care in a supportive and comfortable home-like environment.
We respect each person’s story and show people the dignity they deserve. We provide a wide range of services including chaplaincy and dementia care.
SPICT Uses
The Bethanie Group plans to use the SPICT as an electronic tool to evaluate care plans. The SPICT guides a more targeted approach to individualised care plan evaluation. It focusses on what it is that the customer needs to be able to live the best quality of life possible. This approach facilities an opportunity for crucial conversations about advance care planning in a sensitive and timely manner.
WA Country Health Services (WACHS)
Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Services Offered
WA Country Health Service (WACHS) provides healthcare to more than 500,000 rural and remote West Australians across an area of more than 2.5 million square kilometres.
The population we provide care to is diverse and expansive and as a result has widely varying health needs. With this, our palliative care services are continuing to grow through the early identification of palliative care patients within the regions.
Across the state we have six large regional hospitals, 15 medium sized district hospitals and 48 small hospitals. Along with this there are 31 health centres and nursing posts, four dedicated mental health inpatient units and 24 dedicated mental health services, which also provide outreach services to more remote locations, and over 170 other facilities where population health teams are based.
SPICT Uses
The Supportive and Palliative Care Indicator Tool (SPICT) supports the WA Country Health Service’s commitment to providing the best possible palliative care closer to home for our regional patients.
SPICT supports our specialist and generalist clinicians to understand that palliative care is wider than providing support to those with cancer.
SPICT facilitates early identification of all palliative care patients, enables improved symptom management and prompts discussion with the patient and carer about their values and wishes for future care.
Partners
BaptistCare NSW & ACT
New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
Services Offered
The residential services at our aged care facilities provide the highest quality aged care within our warm and friendly communities. All our 18 homes (1790 beds) come with well trained staff that can support a broad range of care needs to suit each of our clients: from clients who are still fairly independent, to those with complex needs such as people living with dementia, right through to end of life care. We are here to be that extra support families need in ensuring their loved ones are well cared for and feel safe.
SPICT Uses
SPICT is used by Registered Nurses both the App and the tool to determine and identify deterioration. Several homes use the tool as an admission screening. We have our own Palliative and supportive approach and framework and SPICT provides an extra resource.
we have reengaged with SPICT through our ELDAC funded program.
Other information
I am adding SPICT into our formal Policy and Procedure.
Brightwater Group
Inglewood
Services Offered
Brightwater is a leading not-for-profit care provider, with approximately 2400 employees and 200 volunteers, that support 2400 clients in 28 locations and in their own homes across the Perth metropolitan area. With a history of providing care since 1901, Brightwater has expertise in aged care, dementia care, Huntington’s disease, disability support and acquired brain injury rehabilitation.
Brightwater delivers integrated residential, and community based aged and disability care services at:
• 13 residential aged care facilities from Joondalup to Mandurah, including a dementia specific
high care facility in Inglewood
• 10 disability community houses across the Perth metropolitan area including two houses
dedicated to people with Huntington’s disease (and a new purpose built home currently about
to commence construction)
• Dementia specific high care facility in Inglewood
• Transition Care Program (TCP)
• Brightwater at Home provides home care services to more than 1,000 people across the
Metropolitan Area, with the goal to keep them independent at home for as long as possible
• A retirement community at Kingsway Court (with 168 villas)
• Our Capacity Building Program that offers disability services for people living in the
community.
SPICT Uses
Brightwater group certainly understands that palliative care is ‘core’ to the business of caring for people throughout the continuity of life. The SPICT and the ‘SPICT for All’ is used to help our clinicians identify clients with palliative care needs, that then enables improved assessment, symptom management, carer support which ultimately prompts advance care planning discussions, and care that is delivered in line with a person’s life values and wishes.
ELDAC (End of Life Directions for Aged Care)
Sydney
Services Offered
End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) is a project that seeks to improve the care of older Australians through advance care planning activities and palliative care connections. ELDAC is supporting the aged care workforce to provide quality palliative care through:
1. Sharing free palliative care and advance care planning information, guidance, and resources that
are evidence-based on the ELDAC website;
2. Developing innovative palliative care technology solutions for aged care;
3. Building workforce capacity through education;
4. Creating partnerships between specialist palliative care and aged care services;
5. Providing evidence and resources to support system capability.
The ELDAC project is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.
SPICT Uses
ELDAC recommends through our website and engagement with the aged care sector the SPICT as part of best practice for end of life care across all aged care settings. The SPICT is part of ELDAC’s suite of Common Clinical Tools that are evidenced-based and free to use. We also suggest that our aged care service partners participating in the ELDAC Linkages Program use the SPICT in their practice.
End-of-Life Essentials
Australia
Services Offered
End-of-life Essentials (EOLE) education is based on the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care. The aim of EOLE is to build health professional capacity in quality end of life care in acute hospitals.
The education is free to use, evidence based and has been peer reviewed by doctors, nurses and allied health professionals around Australia. This implementation Toolkit brings together tools, resources, promotional materials and evidence that can be used individually or collectively by users to help them change or sustain new practices or to encourage change within their organisation.
SPICT Uses
SPICT is used as one of the screening tools recommended
Other information
Please contact Associate Professor Kim Devery for more information
The Bethanie Group
Western Australia
Services Offered
Our Aged Care Facilities offer person-centred care in a supportive and comfortable home-like environment.
We respect each person’s story and show people the dignity they deserve. We provide a wide range of services including chaplaincy and dementia care.
SPICT Uses
The Bethanie Group plans to use the SPICT as an electronic tool to evaluate care plans. The SPICT guides a more targeted approach to individualised care plan evaluation. It focusses on what it is that the customer needs to be able to live the best quality of life possible. This approach facilities an opportunity for crucial conversations about advance care planning in a sensitive and timely manner.
University of Wollongong
Wollongong
Services Offered
SPICT Uses
We are conducting research to explore how SPICT could be implemented in Australian primary care contexts.
Advance
Services Offered
Advance is a toolkit and national training program to support nurses to work with general practitioners to initiate advance care planning and palliative care in everyday general practice.
Advance includes a suite of specifically designed resources, training videos, online learning modules, workshops, rural scholarships and tele-mentoring. The Advance Toolkit consists of six screening and assessment tools and a guide to support their use. The Toolkit has been endorsed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association.
The training aims to increase skills, confidence and comfort levels of nurses in general practice to initiate conversations with patients and their carers about screening for supportive care needs and advance care planning. The overall objective of the program is to enable earlier consideration and uptake of advance care planning among older people and those with chronic or complex illness, more efficient use of general practitioner and nurse time in assessing palliative and supportive care needs, and more appropriate and timely referrals to specialist palliative care services if required.
Advance is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and led by HammondCare in partnership with other healthcare organisations and universities.
SPICT Uses
SPICT is used as one of the screening tools in the Advance Toolkit and training package. The expert advisory group members for Advance include SPICT programme leads and partners: Kirsty Boyd, Scott Murray, Geoffrey Mitchell and Joel Rhee.
Website: www.caresearch.com.au/advance/
Contact: Professor Josephine Clayton
Armadale Health Service, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia
Services Offered
The Armadale Health Service is one of Australia’s leading public hospitals delivering quality health care to the community.
The 290-bed general hospital, located 34km south-east of the Perth CBD, is equipped with a modern Emergency Department and an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The hospital has strong links with the local community and each year treats more than 60,000 emergency patients, 29,000 inpatients and 52,000 outpatients.
SPICT Uses
The geriatric medicine service from Armadale Health Service has been using SPICT in a clinical study to determine how many people are ‘SPICT positive’ on a rehabilitation ward, to see how this correlates with existing frailty tools and then to follow-up prospectively to determine future hospital utilisation and survival.
Website: www.ahs.health.wa.gov.au/
Contact: Nicholas Waldron
Central Adelaide Palliative Care
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville Rd Woodville Adelaide South Australia
Services Offered
Interdisciplinary palliative care service servicing the central region of Adelaide. We have inpatient beds on three sites, consultation liaison teams at the two major public hospitals, and a comprehensive community care service. The service is based at QEH, one of the two major hospitals
SPICT Uses
It is propsed to use SPICT in a number of settings
- As a part of a statewide tool for documenting in-hospital treatment plans addressing goals of care. SPICT will be used to trigger the consultation leading to the completion of this document, which aligns with any legally binding directives made by the patient
- (Possibly) as part of our mortality review committee audit looking at compliance with appropriate advance care planning. A question like “did this patient meet SPICT criteria that should have prompted a discussion regarding goalsof care and resuscitation status? If so, was there evidence it occurred?”
Contact: Dr Alastair Bonnin
Department of Health, Government of Western Australia
WA Health is Western Australia’s public health system. It covers 2.5 million square kilometres and is the largest area in the world covered by a single health authority. WA Health employs 43,000 staff who ensure the well-being of the State’s ever-increasing population throughout metropolitan, regional and remote areas.
SPICT is used as a tool to help medical staff develop essential knowledge, skills and confidence, to be applied when initiating and engaging in patient-centred conversations, particularly about CPR decision-making.
SPICT Uses
As part of a teaching resource to support decision-making and effective communication about cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the hospital-based setting. The teaching resource, developed by a team of Australian clinicians with different specialties, comprises a facilitator’s guide, videos and supporting resources. The facilitator guide with videos uses the SPICT indicators to assist clinicians identify and collaborate with patients who will more likely benefit from advance CPR decision-making.
Download the online resources: Advance CPR decision making in the hospital setting: teaching package
Website: www.health.wa.gov.au
Contact: Palliative Care
Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth
Fiona Stanley Hospital is Western Australia’s flagship health facility, delivering a comprehensive suite of clinical services. Our hospital will be opened progressively in a four-phased sequence that prioritises patient safety and care, beginning with the State rehabilitation service in October 2014.
SPICT Uses
Use of the SPICT for unplanned admissions to identify patients eligible for goals of care discussion and resuscitation planning on admission.
Website: www.fsh.health.wa.gov.au/
Contact: Susan Mylne
Great Southern Palliative Care Service, Albany, West Australia
Services Offered
Specialist Palliative Care Service, offering comprehensive palliative care consultative support.
- Central point for referrals for palliative care in rural regions (for example, if metropolitan or regional services wish to discharge a patient from hospital to return to a rural town)
- To make an initial assessment of the patient’s needs to assist in planning future care and to determine what ongoing services will be required for the patient
- Provide care coordination for the patient and family and/or referral to service agencies for local care coordination and direct care if required
Provide ongoing advice/consultancy/shared care for complex patients or patients with escalating needs exceeding the local resources
Episodic clinical assessment including treatment and medication review - Build capacity in regional health professionals to provide palliative care to meet Palliative Care Australia standards
- Provide psychosocial consultancy and support
- Provide access to specialist palliative care medical consultation and advice
- Identify the need for discharge back to primary carers with the option of planned re-referral.
SPICT Uses
We are gradually introducing the SPICT tool within the GSHS to assist primary care providers and other specialty services identify patients who may benefit from specialist palliative care support. We have a small quality improvement team working on this project within Albany Health Care Campus.
The SPICT tool is very much in line with the promotion of advanced care planning within WA.
Our hope is by using this tool we may reduce hospital admissions by the introduction of our services in a more timely manner supporting carers and families.
Feedback so far has been very positive and plan to review/audit results of this trial with professional providers and consumers
Contact: Lesley Forrester
Metropolitan Palliative Care Consultancy Service MPaCCS – Perth
Services Offered
Who are the members of MPaCCS?
• Palliative Care Specialists
• Senior Palliative Care Nurses
• Senior Palliative Care Social Workers
What services will MPaCCS provide for me?
The aim of the service is to assist primary health providers (GPs, Other Medical Specialists, nursing & allied health staff) to provide the best palliative care possible for their patients. Team members are available to provide the following services:
1. Clinical and psychosocial review of palliative patients who:
• have any sort of life limiting illness
• have complex palliative care needs
• exhibit difficult to control pain or symptoms
• need transitional support from hospital to facility
• have previously been seen by a palliative care team
2. Specialist advice and assistance for any doctors and nurses with these patients in their care
3. palliative care education tailored to your individual needs.
Where does MPaCCS provide these services?
The Team can visit eligible patients with life limiting illnesses and assist staff caring for these palliative patients at the any of these locations:
• Residential aged care facility
• Disability Services facility
• Corrective services facility
• Mental health hospital or facility.
Uses of SPICT
- Highlight Palliative Care Patients in Care Facilities.
- Educational tool for Care staff
- Capacity build with hospital staff in regards to when & who to refer to Palliative Care Teams
Website: www.bethesda.asn.au/MPaCCS.aspx
Contact: Ed Gaudoin
Mirrabooka Doctors Surgery, Perth
Services Offered
General Practice
SPICT Uses
Assessment of death risk based on clinical features such as COPD
Contact: Dr Catherine Bacon
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, South Australia
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NAHLN) is one of three Local Health Networks in metropolitan Adelaide. NAHLN delivers public hospital services and other community-based public health services as determined by the State Government of South Australia. NALHN includes the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Modbury Hospital, GP Plus Health Care Centres and Super Clinics, sub-acute services, mental health and Aboriginal Health services.
SPICT is used as a tool to help medical staff develop essential knowledge, skills and confidence, to be applied when initiating and engaging in patient-centred conversations, particularly about CPR decision-making.
SPICT Uses
As part of a teaching resource to support decision-making and effective communication about cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the hospital-based setting. The teaching resource, developed by a team of Australian clinicians with different specialties, comprises a facilitator’s guide, videos and supporting resources. The facilitator guide with videos uses the SPICT indicators to assist clinicians identify and collaborate with patients who will more likely benefit from advance CPR decision-making.
Website: www.sahealth.sa.gov.au
Contact: Christine Drummond
Northern Health, Victoria Australia
Northern Health is one of Victoria’s busiest public health services. The acute and sub-acute health services cover a local community of approximately 728,000 people and the emergency department treats almost 70,000 patients each year.
The northern community is located in one of Melbourne’s most significant growth corridors and the population is expected to grow by 64% or an additional 128,569 people by 2031.
SPICT is used as a tool to help medical staff develop essential knowledge, skills and confidence, to be applied when initiating and engaging in patient-centred conversations, particularly about CPR decision-making.
SPICT Uses
As part of a teaching resource to support decision-making and effective communication about cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the hospital-based setting. The teaching resource, developed by a team of Australian clinicians with different specialties, comprises a facilitator’s guide, videos and supporting resources. The facilitator guide with videos uses the SPICT indicators to assist clinicians identify and collaborate with patients who will more likely benefit from advance CPR decision-making.
Website: www.nh.org.au
Contact: Barbara Hayes
Palliative and Supportive Care Education Cancer Council WA
Palliative and Supportive Care Education (PaSCE) provides Palliative Care education for health professionals,
Health care workers and palliative care volunteers across Western Australia. PaSCE provides innovative and evidence-based palliative care education, as part of the Cancer Information and Support Services team at Cancer Council WA. Our programs are aimed at increasing knowledge and understanding of palliative care in all settings. As stated by the World Health Organisation, palliative care is for any person with a life-limiting illness. PaSCE education reflects this in our education.
The education is delivered by nurse educators in collaboration with palliative care specialist providers and health professionals. PaSCE is supported by the WA Cancer and Palliative Care Network ,Department of Health and Cancer Council WA.PaSCE strives to improve and develop our education to continue to meet the ever increasing demand for palliative care education.
SPICT Uses
Within our palliative care education workshops we highlight SPICT as a tool used within WA and integrate it into our teaching where appropriate.
Download the online resources: Advance CPR decision making in the hospital setting: teaching package
Website: www.cancerwa.asn.au
Contact: G Buchanan
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Services Offered
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital is one of Australia’s leading teaching tertiary hospitals. Located on the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre site the hospital has over 600 beds and treats approximately 400,000 patients every year. The hospital provides a comprehensive range of clinical services whilst being home to the state’s comprehensive cancer centre and the principal hospital for neurosurgery and liver transplants.
SPICT Uses
The SPICT will be introduced as a tool to assist clinicians identify patients that will likely benefit from goals of care discussions and formulation of resuscitation plans.
Website: www.scgh.health.wa.gov.au
Contact: Anil Tandon
South Australian Department for Health and Ageing
Contact: Christy Pirone, Principal Consultant, Safety and Quality
University of Queensland School of Medicine
The SPICT tool has been incorporated into a broader audit tool that is being used to assess the possibility of futile treatment. 1000 charts are being audited across 3 major Brisbane hospitals..
Website: www.som.uq.edu.au
Contact: Sarah Winch , Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics