Palliative Care
Project Name: Palliative Care in the Thompson Region
Physician lead: Dr. Robert Baker
Timeline: Active (ending March 31, 2025)
Funder: Shared Care Committee
Project Name: Palliative Care in the Thompson Region
Physician lead: Dr. Robert Baker
Timeline: Active (ending March 31, 2025)
Funder: Shared Care Committee
This project seeks to improve the palliative care experience for patients and providers through educational activities and integrated health service planning. This project has undergone many iterations throughout the past four years and has included the following:
- Palliative care needs assessment to better understand primary care providers’ experience of providing palliative care.
- The delivery of two successful small group learning sessions in collaboration with the Practice Support Program, to primary care providers practicing in the Thompson Region.
- Interviews and mentoring of new palliative physicians joining the palliative physician on-call group.
- The development of a framework for a palliative care toolkit to support primary care providers.
- The planning and implementation (including purchase of equipment) of an outpatient palliative care clinic for community based unattached patients, located at Hospice House in Kamloops.
- Collaborative planning around enhancing care coordination and communication between the Royal Inland Hospital Cancer Clinic and the palliative physician on-call group, and the new Interior Health Pain and Symptom Management Clinic for cancer patients undergoing active treatment.
Key Outcomes:
- Enhance collaboration and communication between primary care providers, specialists and call group members.
- Enhance patient experiences with pain and symptom management and palliative care services.
- Better equip primary care providers with palliative and pain and symptom management services and resources.
