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Our enormous thanks go to all the speakers, sponsors, supporters and participants for making the 2024 Palliative Care Summit such a rich and illuminating event.
Presenters Professor Hsien Seow, Professor Susan Kurrle, Professor Samar Aoun, Dr Nathalie Huitema, Caroline Reid, Vicki Barry, Janet Wagland, Richard Newman, Lenni Duffield, Andrew Allsop, Bernadette Nowak, Professor Alan Harvey, Dr Peta Murray, Sabena Lund – you are amazing!
Thank you to our introductory speakers too – Health Minister Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson, PCA CEO Camilla Rowland, Bethesda CEO Neale Fong, Ingrid Cumming for the Welcome to Country, and Di Darmody for her excellent MC role.
Huge thank you to Major Sponsor Bethesda Health Care, Valued Sponsors Carers WA, St John of God Health Care, Palliative and Supportive Care Education at the Cancer Council WA, Silverchain, Hesta, Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, and Brightwater Care Group, and to supporters Health Department of WA, Richard Lockwood Charitable Foundation, Parkinson’s Western Australia, MNDAWA, Buswest and Lotterywest.
A special thank you too to the Friends in Harmony Choir.
If you missed the event, please see the speaker presentations here:
Presentations
Lenni Duffield – Good News. You’re worth Millions$
Professor Alan Harvey – The lifetime benefits of music on mental and physical health. (coming soon)
Workshops
Members of Palliative Care WA are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 10 December 2024. 4.30pm at the Boulevard Centre, 99 The Boulevard, Floreat. Refreshments will follow…
On behalf of PCWA CEO Lenka Psar McCabe, Board President Dr Elissa Campbell, and the extraordinarily hard-working PCWA team that brought you the 2024 Palliative Care Summit, our enormous thanks…
In the lead up to the 2024 Palliative Care Summit tomorrow, Keynote speaker Professor Hsien Seow spoke to Nadia Mitsopoulos, ABC Perth Morning Program Presenter about his work, his visit to Perth…
Invitation to Members – NOTICE This is a reminder that the members of Palliative Care WA are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 10 December 2024. The…
Thank you to Medical Forum for publishing a column in the November edition about the challenges and intersection of palliative care and neurodegenerative disease that prompted us to highlight this…
A recent evaluation of our Advance Care Planning workshops, Advance Care Planning Workshops Evaluation Report 2024, showed that they were instrumental in enabling individuals to complete the Advance Health Directives…
The Palliative Care Helpline, a free service that provided the WA community with information and support on end-of-life planning, palliative care, and grief and loss, ceased operation on 31 October…
Board member nominations now closed! Nominations are now open for election to the Palliative Care WA Board for 2025. As the peak body for the palliative care sector across the…
As the peak body for palliative care in Western Australia, Palliative Care WA has consulted with our organisational members and other key palliative care sector organisations regarding vital palliative care…
Thanatologist Dr Margaret Sealey will be holding a monthly Grief Café on the first Friday of each month at Bodhi Tree Bookshop Cafe on the corner of Oxford Street and…
We are delighted to announce that registrations are NOW OPEN for the 2024 Palliative Care Summit – Navigating the crossroads: Building the intersection between palliative care and neurodegenerative disease on…
Palliative Care WA is proud to offer for purchase copies of Professor Hsien Seow’s book, ‘Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 keys for navigating a life-changing diagnosis’….