About SMRPCC

The Southern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium is an alliance of all funded palliative care services in the region and a number of associate member agencies with an interest in collaborating regionally on issues around palliative care.

The Victorian End of Life and Palliative Care Framework guides the development of our activities. Palliative care is now “everyone’s responsibility in the healthcare, human service, social and community sectors to provide high-quality end of life care for their clients”.

The framework has five priority areas:

• delivering person-centered services
• engaging communities, embracing diversity
• coordinating and integrating services
• making quality end of life and palliative care everyone’s responsibility
• strengthening specialist palliative care

The consortium has an operational plan, which enables the coordinated implementation of activities towards the priority areas.

Members

• Alfred Health
• Calvary Health Care Bethlehem
• Peninsula Health
• Peninsula Home Hospice
• Palliative Care South East
• Monash Health

Associate Members

• Bolton Clarke
• Cabrini Palliative Care
• South Eastern Private Hospital
• Southern Metropolitan Integrated Cancer Service
• South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (SEMPHN)
• St John of God Health Care