Key messages
- Palliative care consortia undertake regional palliative care planning and coodinate palliative care regional services in each Department of Health & Human Services region.
- Each regional consortium has its own website, which gives a comprehensive overview of the services it provides.
Palliative care consortia bring together senior management representatives and clinicians from all healthcare services funded to provide specialist palliative care. Their focus is to work collaboratively within each Department of Health and Human Services region to deliver and develop palliative care services.
Palliative care consortia support palliative care providers within their designated catchment to:
- raise awareness of palliative care amongst health care providers, ancillary services, community groups and organisations including residential facilities
- foster collaboration amongst service providers to maximize designated palliative care resources, reduce duplication of effort and promote consistency of practice
- promote end of life and palliative care education and training
- inform improvements to practice through their Clinical Advisory Group and broader clinical engagement activities, including liaison with Safer Care Victoria’s Palliative Care Clinical Network
- advise the department about regional priorities for future service development and funding.
Consortiums are required to provide an annual report to the Department of Health and Human Services at the completion of each financial year.
More information about each regional consortium including their annual reports can be found on their individual websites.
Barwon South Western Regional Palliative Care
| Chairperson | Jacqui White, Manager Palliative Care, Barwon Health |
| Manager | Myra McRae Phone: (03) 4215 5661 |
Eastern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care
| Chairperson | Michael Bramwell, Operations Manager Palliative Care Services, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne |
| Manager | Sarah Kleinitz Phone: 0413 264 214 | Email: consortiummanager@epc.asn.au |
Gippsland Regional Palliative Care
| Chairperson | Cheryl Bush, Executive Manager Clinical and Nursing Services, Gippsland Lakes Community Health Service |
| Manager | Anny Byrne Phone: (03) 5623 0684 | Email: GRPCC.Enquiries@wghg.com.au |
Grampians Regional Palliative Care
| Chairperson | Peter Armstrong, Director Clinical Services, East Grampians Health Service |
| Manager | Anna Gray Phone: 0428 171 341 | Email: GRPCC.gpalcareconsort@gmail.com |
| Chairperson | Robyn Sprunt, Executive Manager Community Health and Wellbeing, NCN Health |
| Manager | Elizabeth Jenkins Phone: 0417 780 684 | Email: Elizabeth.jenkins@gvhealth.org.au |
Loddon Mallee Regional Palliative Care
| Chairperson | Kathy Wright, Executive Director Clinical Services, Swan Hill District Health |
| Manager | Adam Rutyna Phone: 5454 9215 | Email: arutyna@bendigohealth.org.au |
North and West Metropolitan Region Palliative Care
| Chairperson | Amy Noble, Senior Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Consultant, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre |
| Manager | Kathleen Menzies Phone: (03) 9977 0026 | Email: kmenzies@mcm.org.au |
Southern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care
| Chairperson | Janet Phillips, Chief Executive Officer, Peninsula Home Hospice |
| Manager | Tanja Bahro Phone: 0418 584 106 | Email: tanja.bahro@smrpcc.org.au |
Role statements
Reviewed 31 January 2023