Education: A guide for services

The purpose of this guide is to support services and organisations to embed local education and training to enable accurate and consistent use of PCOC’s assessment and response framework and participation in the PCOC outcome and benchmarking program. This guide provides information on the full range of PCOC resources and tools available to support services and organisations to develop an education plan and to ensure all staff receive adequate PCOC education

Implementing PCOC: A guide for services

The purpose of this guide is to assist services in the implementation of the Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) program. Implementing the PCOC program is a three stage process requiring action in the following areas: leadership and governance, routine assessment, orientation and ongoing education, data management and quality improvement

Quality Improvement: A guide for services

This guide provides information for clinicians from organisations and services participating in PCOC to use their reports and the suite of PCOC quality improvement tools for continuous improvement, and to demonstrate improvement in patient and family/carer outcomes

Patient Outcomes in Palliative Care - NSW and ACT, January - June 2019

The Australian palliative care sector is a world leader in using routine clinical assessment information to guide patient centred care and measure patient and family outcomes. Providers of palliative care are commended for their commitment to excellence in delivering evidence-based, patient-centred care by using the routine Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) assessment framework and contributing patient data toward national outcome measurement and benchmarking. PCOC acknowledges the dedication and willingness of clinicians to improve the care of patients, their families and caregivers. The information collected is not just data - it represents the real-life outcomes of over 40,000 Australians who die an expected death every year. While the focus of this report is on the most recent information relating to January to June 2019, results over the last three years are also presented to highlight achievements and improvement in outcomes. The most recent information corresponds to 24,562 patients, having 31,826 episodes of care and 73,209 palliative care phases from 138 services who provide palliative care in hospital / hospice or in the person\u27s home

A profile of patients receiving palliative care in NSW and ACT for January - June 2019

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 5,873 patients who received palliative care in NSW and ACT during January to June 2019 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care

A profile of patients receiving palliative care in NSW and ACT for July – December 2019

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 6,150 patients who received palliative care in NSW and ACT during July to December 2019 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care