WA CEO Roundtable on Palliative Care meets with Ken Wyatt, Aged Care Minister
The CEO Roundtable on Palliative Care provides high level advice to State and Federal Government on palliative care issues in WA. The Roundtable is facilitated by Palliative Care WA with CEO’s drawn from PCWA member organisations within the health and community service sectors.
On September 7 2018, the Roundtable met with Federal Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care and Indigenous Health, Hon Ken Wyatt MP to discuss palliative care in aged care, advance care planning, the recent WA Parliamentary Report on End of Life Choices and other issues of importance to the sector. You can read about the discussion and outcomes of the meeting in the latest Communique from the CEO Roundtable.
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