Education and training in end-of-life and palliative care is critical to support health professionals to facilitate high quality care and support meaningful end-of-life choices.
The WA Department of Health’s End-of-Life Care Program has collaborated with CareSearch to develop an interactive end-of-life and palliative care education and training framework for WA (external site).
This digital resource is designed specifically to support WA health professionals and staff who care for people approaching the end of life. This includes health professionals working in primary care, hospital, community, and aged care services.
It provides an easy and efficient pathway for clinicians to identify and address education and training gaps by connecting them to relevant learning resources within the CareSearch portal. This interactive framework builds on the End-of-Life and Palliative Care Education and Training Framework launched in 2022.
Health professionals can use the interactive framework to:
- identify their learning needs.
- create an interactive personal learning matrix and learning plan.
- explore learning pathways tailored to their profession and workplace setting.
- easily access relevant WA Health end-of-life and palliative care guides and resources.
Historically, there has been a significant number of end-of-life and palliative care education and training resources available, however health professionals found it was difficult to identify their specific needs and navigate the variety of options.
The interactive framework addresses this issue by providing a tailored and connected learning pathway to appropriate education and training resources.
