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GRPCT Plan 2004-2009
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The Grampians Region Palliative Care Consortium is required to develop a plan for how palliative care services are to be delivered across the region, including details of how the consortium will work together with other health and community care providers to strengthen patients’ access to the palliative care approach as well as appropriate access to specialist services.
The Grampians Regional Palliative Care Plan will cover a 5-year span from 2004 to 2009 and will identify and prioritise the palliative care needs of the communities within the Grampians Health Region of Victoria. The plan will support the Victorian Department of Human Services policy: Strengthening palliative care: a policy for health and community care providers 2004-2009.
An integrated services system is outlined under this policy. In each region, specialist palliative care providers have formed the regional consortia to enable an ‘efficient and cooperative use of resources while supporting an integrated approach to care for the patient’ (Department of Human Services 2004).
The Department of Human Services Guide to developing your regional plan (Department of Human Services 2004a) has provided the template for planning. Local communities’ needs are to be identified and meaningful input is to be obtained from people with life-threatening illnesses, families and carers. The regional palliative care plan will also complement existing planning frameworks, such as the Primary Care Partnerships, the Integrated Cancer Services Framework, Home and Community Care and other relevant service frameworks.
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The Grampians Regional Palliative Care Plan 2004-2009 is structured as follows:
 the methodology or approach;
the regional context;
gaps and priorities;
the strategic plan addressing these priorities.
For more information please download the above PDF file.
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Map of Grampians Region:
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Projected Populations by Local Government Area:
The above table shows the current population of the region by local government area.
Reading from left to right, the columns show: the population as recorded in the 2001 ABS census; the proportion of the regional population in each LGA; the projected population for each LGA in 2011; and the projected per annum rate of increase for the ten years commencing 2001.
The final two columns provide the percentage of the population over 60 years of age in 2001 and the projections for the percentages aged over 60 years in 2031. The age group over 60 years has been identified as this group makes up approximately 80% of all palliative care patients based on current figures.
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