Palliative Care

Aged-care consultancy Equinox Health pivoted from education to service provision just before concerns about the pandemic pushed the resthome sector into prominence

Aged-care consultancy Equinox Health pivoted from education to service provision just before concerns about the pandemic pushed the resthome sector into prominence

A small but growing number of GPs is training to provide assisted-dying services solely for their own patients, says Kristin Good, registrar of the Assisted Dying Service at the Ministry of Health

A small but growing number of GPs is training to provide assisted-dying services solely for their own patients, says Kristin Good, registrar of the Assisted Dying Service at the Ministry of Health

More than 200 people have applied for assisted dying since it became legal and 66 people up to 31 March have had an assisted death, the Ministry of Health’s first quarterly report shows

Providing equity of access for assisted dying without equity of access to palliative care is to completely undermine the goals of the End of Life Choice Act

Australia has made it mandatory for people to have a doctor’s prescription before purchasing nicotine e-cigarettes from any source.

Palliative care specialists fear health practitioners with as little as six hours online training could end up providing euthanasia for patients who would have wanted to live if they had proper care and pain relief

Two months ago, Tahu Hikuroa (37) died of an aggressive brain tumour leaving his wife Jo and two young sons, Knox and Manaaki to carry on without him

RNZCGP president Sam Murton would like to see officials get started, consulting and working on the structures and governance system for assisted dying.