After-hours primary health care to palliative care will soon be available to patients in Ararat and across western Victoria.
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Grampians Region Palliative Care Consortium works with health services across the Grampians region to work more cohesively together.
Consortium chair Peter Armstrong said the after-hours palliative care service would be a significant step towards ensuring people across the region would have access to the services they require.
"For some of those in more remote regions that need some palliative care support overnight, it will offer them the support they need," he said.
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"We're also trying to develop a palliative care clinical information tool that will allow clinicians across the region to share information so people can get more accurate and timely advice.
"It means people here don't fall through the cracks and that there's a continuity in care for patients."
Mr Armstrong said it would make the region's healthcare services more comprehensive.
"We've been trying to resolve the issue of after-hours support for a while," he said.
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"Because for people, especially if they're not in the bigger cities, they might go to an urgent care centre or an emergency department and not get the level of care that they could get because people haven't got access to their clinical information.
"It will be via phone to start but down the track, it might even be via telehealth as well."
The federal government funds the $300,000 project as part of Western Victoria Primary Health Network's more comprehensive program to identify and support ideas for delivering after-hours primary care support in western Victoria.
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