Health Partners
Working together
Our aim is to provide appropriate advice and support for people and families that are affected by a life-limiting illness, and for healthcare professionals. The information below focuses on helping health professionals, health workers and community colleagues who support and care for those with a life limiting illness to provide the best care for patients who may be at home, in hospital or in residential care.
Referrals
Hospice Marlborough can receive referrals through a healthcare professional, such as a General Practitioner (GP), specialist medical practitioner or community agency.
Any adult patient with an active advanced progressive life-limiting disease may be referred for Hospice services at some point in their life. Our aim is to provide appropriate advice and support for Healthcare Professionals in our community, we work in partnership with you to ensure the best care is delivered to patients and their families living with a life limiting illness and needing palliative care support.
Hospice Marlborough works with all Healthcare Professionals who support patients who may be at home, in hospital or in a care home.
To access the services offered by Hospice Marlborough, a person may be referred by their Healthcare Professional – such as a General Practitioner (GP), specialist medical practitioner, or community agency.
Click here to download our Hospice Marlborough Eligibility Criteria.
As one of these Healthcare Professionals if you have a patient to refer, please do so by completing the below online Referral Form.
Click here to complete an Online Referral Form for Specialist Palliative Care through PalCare
Click here to download Criteria for Discharge from Specialist Palliative Care Services
Perhaps because of misconceptions as to how a hospice can help, we are often not contacted early in a person’s illness. But the sooner we are contacted, the more we can help you support your patients and their whānau.
If you’re unsure which services may best suit your patient, please contact us and we would be happy to discuss more about our services with you via email on hospice.marlborough@mht.org.nz or via phone on (03) 578 9492.
Education
Welcome to the Hospice Marlborough Specialist Palliative Care Education and Training Programme for 2024.
Thank you for your interest in our education programme for health professionals and those with an interest in palliative care.
All hospice services provide a range of training and education opportunities within their local community. Please scroll below to find out what opportunities and timing are available in association with your local Hospice, Hospice Marlborough.
Hospice Marlborough is committed to providing ongoing learning and development for our own staff, and other healthcare professionals, to ensure our patients and their whānau receive the best care available. We work in collaboration with other health providers to provide a wide range of learning opportunities in palliative care for health professionals, health workers and community colleagues.
Click to download our 2024 Education Programme
Click to download our Education Programme Registration Form
All courses outlined in this programme are provided free of charge to the participants or their employer.
If the course you are looking for is not outlined in this programme, please contact us by email on hospice.marlborough@mht.org.nz or via phone on (03) 578 9492, as it may be a workshop that we can provide.
We encourage all participants to complete an evaluation form for every course attended as your feedback on your experience is valuable to us in future planning.
Please find an overview of courses offered, below.
Taking place once a month, this training session is designed for Registered and Enrolled Nurses to update their knowledge of the use of comfort medications and syringe drivers in the management of symptoms in palliative care and at end of life.
Location: Onsite at each ARC facility
Educator: Kerri Hale, Clinical Nurse Specialist
A new, blended online learning programme
This series of education modules has been specifically developed by Hospice New Zealand for all staff working in the aged residential sector and primary health. This is an introductory level course including self-learning commitment and pre and post module activities.
Watch a short (2 min) introductory video of the programme to help set you up before you get started.
The 10-month course for 2024 starts on Tuesday 20th February and we are now taking enrollments.
Module 1: Essence of Palliative Care
Module 2: Ethical Issues in Palliative Care
Module 3: Pain & Symptom Management
Module 4: Palliative Care for People with Chronic Illness
Module 5: Dementia
Module 6: Communication Skills
Module 7: Last Days of Life
Module 8: Loss and Grief
Module 9: Introduction to Spiritual Care
Module 10: Caring for Ourselves
Location: Hospice Marlborough, Marlborough Hospice Trust Meeting Room
Educator: Kerri Hale, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Background
The programme was launched nationally in 2012, since that time, regular reviews have occurred and in 2016 the Introduction to Spiritual Care package was added to the programme. Each year around 10,000 people nationally have taken part in one or more of the packages.
The Palliative Care Lecture series provides an opportunity each month to participate in lectures on topical subjects in palliative care via teleconference, designed for healthcare professionals with an interest in palliative care.
Provided by Hospice New Zealand with funding from the Cancer Research Trust New Zealand [formerly Genesis Oncology Trust], the lectures will be delivered via webcast on the first Thursday of every month from February to December 2024 from 7.30 to 8.30am.
Click to view the 2024 Lecture Programme to December.
Click to access previous Hospice NZ Lectures.
You can access these lectures by attending at registered sites around the country, or by registering via Hospice NZ here.
Explore the importance of Advanced Care Planning and help build your confidence to start ‘Conversations that Count’ with clients and patients.
This is an online course and so to find out more, or to register or login please visit the Advance Care Planning website.