Pharmacists enhancing Palliative Care across the Health Neighbourhood
Tracks
Track 2
| Friday, August 1, 2025 |
| 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
| C2.2 + C2.3 |
| Sponsored By: |
Details
A Health Neighbourhood, also known as a Patient-Centred Health Neighbourhood (PCHN), is a collaborative concept that builds awareness to help pharmacists integrate into their local healthcare community and multidisciplinary teams. In palliative care, this approach aims to increase collaboration and to support holistic, patient-centred care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses. It ensures seamless, high-quality care that enhances comfort, dignity, and quality of life, particularly during transitions of care between hospital, hospice, residential care and home settings.
By mapping, understanding and engaging with their local Health Neighbourhood for palliative care, pharmacists can expand their contributions and leverage the broader healthcare ecosystem. This extends beyond clinical settings to include social, emotional, and practical support services. A well-coordinated, patient-centred model improves timely access to essential care and medicines, supports smooth transitions of care, and enhances quality of life for both patients and caregivers.
Join this insightful session where leading experts will discuss:
✅ Understanding how your Health Neighbourhood works and how to map it
✅ What critical roles pharmacists play within Health Neighbourhoods for palliative care
✅ How and why to connect with your Health Neighbourhood to optimise patient care
✅ Utilise available resources
Learning objectives
- Identify key stakeholders in the Health Neighbourhood for palliative care
- Recognise the roles of healthcare providers, community organisations, and support services involved in palliative care.
- Develop strategies to proactively engage with healthcare teams and caregivers to enhance local palliative care
Competency standards (2016): 1.1, 1.6, 2.1, 3.1, 3.6
Speakers
Penny Liddell
Pharmacist
Hummingbird House
Pharmacists enhancing palliative care across the health neighbourhood
Biography
Penny Liddell is a motivated pharmacist with a strong and diverse professional background and over 30 years clinical experience in community pharmacy, consultant pharmacy and academia.
For the past three and a half years Penny has worked to develop and evolve a full clinical pharmacy service to Hummingbird House, QLD only paediatric hospice and she has been involved with the implementation and roll-out of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Queensland as part of the QVAD Support and Pharmacy Service.
Penny is passionate about expanding the role of the pharmacist within a multidisciplinary healthcare team and is actively involved in stakeholder and research groups across the palliative care space.
Ms Niamh O'Neill
Pharmacist Community Palliative Care
NSW Health
Pharmacists enhancing palliative care across the health neighbourhood
Biography
Niamh has more than 20 years’ experience in hospital pharmacy
having worked in Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom and
New Zealand (public and private sectors). Her career to date has
been focused on clinical service provision but has also featured roles
in senior management, guideline development & publication along with drug utilisation and evaluation (DUE). Her clinical areas of passion are palliative
and end-of-life care, building on her extensive experience in
geriatrics and cancer services. Niamh works in WNSW LHD community palliative care team providing a telehealth pharmacist service.
Ms Penelope Tuffin
Palliative Care Consultant
WA Country Health, Fiona Stanley And Bethesda Hospitals
Pharmacists enhancing palliative care across the health neighbourhood
Biography
Penny is an Advanced Practice Pharmacist in Palliative Care and Pain Management. She is the Palliative Care Pharmacist Lead for the WA Country Health Service involved in care of people in the community, hospitals and residential care across the state of WA. She also has clinical roles with the Palliative Care Consultancy Team at Fiona Stanley Hospital and the Palliative Care Unit at Bethesda Hospital. She is a long-term member of the WA Department of Health End of Life and Palliative Care Advisory Committee. She has been instrumental in developing pain and palliative care resources in WA and is a member of the Expert Writing Committee for the Palliative Care Therapeutic Guidelines and ASPIRE. Penny provides advice, education and mentoring for healthcare professionals and undergraduate students throughout Western Australia in pain management and palliative care.
