Community pharmacists play an important role in supporting families and carers who are providing care for a person at home.
The resources contained in the Community Palliative Care Resources Pharmacy Pack help pharmacists to support families and carers in providing practical care, physical symptom management and subcutaneous medicine management for a person at home.
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What is in the pharmacy pack?
| Managing physical symptoms Tip sheets | ||
Managing subcutaneous medicines Factsheets | Making sure there are enough medicines in the home Storing your palliative care medicines safely/Disposing of your | |
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Recognising dying Tip sheet | Knowing when a person is getting closer to dying/Knowing when a person has died | |
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Understanding infusion devices Factsheets | Information for carers: CADD™-SOLIS and CADD™-SOLISVIP infusion pumps | |
Information for carers: NIKI T34™, T34™ and BODYGUARD™T syringe pumps | ||
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Providing practical care Step-by-step guides | ||
| Shelf talkers | Supporting timely stocking and ordering of medicines from the National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List |
How to use it?
- Familiarise yourself with the factsheets, tip sheets and step-by-step guides
- Keep these documents as a master set and download or print more copies as needed
- Provide a copy of relevant resources to families or carers when needed
- Advise families and carers to follow clinical guidance and consult with their health care providers.
- Use the shelf talkers to maintain stocks of core community palliative care medicines.
Order a Pharmacy Pack
Pharmacists can order 1 pack per pharmacy using the button below.
Other resources to support pharmacists
- National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List - The List identifies four medicines for use by home-based palliative patients in the terminal phase who require urgent symptom relief.
- palliMEDS app - The palliMEDS app supports primary care prescribers to provide optimal symptom management to their patients in the community.