Hospice Palliative Care

Hospice Palliative Care is an active compassionate approach that treats, comforts and supports individuals who are living with or dying from a progressive or chronic condition regardless of age, diagnosis, or care setting. Approximately 80% of the palliative care population that is served by these care providers is seniors.

The purpose of the Hospice Palliative Care Community of Practice (CoP) is to improve the quality of care through sharing knowledge and resources to enable evidence-informed care and decision-making. The HPC CoP provides a forum to:

Facilitate the exchange of information
Identify and recommend areas of common interest for sharing project planning and implementation
Work collaboratively on joint strategic and action planning, including grant applications
Facilitate system coordination, decrease duplication, and increase efficiencies
Support the development of common evaluative tools and processes
Explore avenues to share information with other key provincial organizations
Network with other CoP’s to share best practice information and content area expertise

Most recently, the Hospice and Palliative Care CoP hosted an Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) presentation by Dr. Larry Librach, “To Err is Human”, completed a province-wide education initiative called Setting the Stage for Change, and an evidence-informed Knowledge Synthesis Report on system design.

Core working group/ membership

The Hospice and Palliative Care CoP connects with 655 persons across Ontario who have expressed interest in participating and / or contributing to CoP and sector events, initiatives or resources.

The 2010-2012 Hospice and Palliative Care CoP core working group members are (alpha order):

Kevin Brazil, Department of Family Medicine, Div of Palliative Care at McMaster University
Rick Firth, Executive Director Hospice Association of Ontario
Cathy Joy, Co-Chair Palliative Care Consultation Network
Channie Mak, S.R.T. Med-Staff
Andrea Martin, Co-Chair Provincial Hospice Palliative Care Network
Margaret Poling, Palliative Pain & Symptom Consultant, North
Hsien-Yeang Seow, McMaster University
Chris Sherwood, Past President Ontario Palliative Care Association
Carol Sloan, Manager, Halton Peel Palliative Care Consultant & Education
Patricia Strachan, Faculty & Staff at the School of Nursing at McMaster University

Resources

With the help of SHRTN, the Hospice and Palliative Care CoP plans to create a virtual filing cabinet of palliative care documents that would include system design documents, agendas and minutes for meetings, presentations, policy, and procedures.

Hospice Palliative Care

Core working group/ membership

Resources

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