Scenario 1
Your patient has a life-limiting illness and has ongoing progressive disease with symptoms that require monitoring and/or needs support at home.
Refer to a community palliative care service.
Scenario 2
Your patient has a life-limiting illness and has pain and/or other symptoms that are not adequately managed and needs specialist assessment (within a couple of weeks) and a management plan that you can then maintain.
Refer to palliative care outpatient clinic.
Scenario 3
Your patient has a life-limiting illness and has severe acute pain and/or other symptoms not responding to the medications prescribed and needs admission to an inpatient facility for a specialist assessment and admission.
Refer to a specialist palliative care unit.
Scenario 4
Your patient has a life-limiting illness and has sever, acute back pain and neurological signs suspicious of spinal cord compression.
Call an ambulance and send to a tertiary hospital emergency department.
Scenario 5
Your patient lives in a residential care facility and the patient/family or care facility needs assistance with information, symptom management and advice regarding ongoing care needs and planning.
Refer to palliative care residential care facility consultancy service.