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Organizational readiness found to be main driver for good quality end-of-life care in hospitals

Organizational readiness found to be main driver for good quality end-of-life care in hospitals Jul 8 2021 How prepared and engaged a hospital is to provide end-of-life care is pivotal to the quality of care provided, a new Flinders University study has found. With many deaths occurring in hospitals in Australia every year, hospitals are one of the main providers of end-of-life care. And with the number of Australians who die each year projected to double by 2040, the need for safe and quality end-of-life care in hospitals is an ongoing concern. Now, a recent study conducted by the Flinders University Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death, and Dying has sought to identify the best practices and organizational requirements for delivering excellent end-of-life care in hospitals. The study also identified the measures needed to support patients and families during a pandemic.

Issues remain with informed consent around hospital procedures

Controversy continues to dog how hospitals get permission to operate on patients. A year on from a complaint North Shore Hospital was breaching women s rights, an investigation into it by the Health and Disability Commissioner is still going on (file image). Photo: 123rf The rules have now been strengthened a little, but too weakly for some women s health advocates and in a way that raises further questions. The risk now was of a piecemeal approach, according to the Cartwright Collective - named after the 1989 Cartwright inquiry into unconsented gynaecological examinations at National Women s Hospital, that were dubbed The Unfortunate Experiment .