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Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration

Education

PCOC offers a comprehensive education program. This program is free for participating services. It aims to support services and organisations to embed local education and training for accurate and consistent use of PCOC's assessment and response framework and participation in the PCOC outcome and benchmarking program. The Education program includes PCOC Essentials - an online short course, virtual webinars/workshops and other useful resources.

Complete PCOC Essentials

Please note: if you have not previously completed the PCOC Essentials Module online course, please click the link above, create an account, and complete the training as a pre-requisite for the Fundamentals webinar and both Clinical Leaders’ workshops

Please email pcoc@uow.edu.au if you have any enquiries on this module.

Every time I return from a PCOC workshop I always have a new sense of enthusiasm for using PCOC more efficiently.

PCOC webinars and virtual workshops

PCOC fundamentals webinar is a 2 hour program designed to enhance knowledge of the PCOC assessment and response framework for newly registered services and clinicians.

At the end of this webinar participants will have an improved understanding of:

  • Assessing the palliative care phase
  • Using assessment tools for symptom management, functional and performance status
  • Using assessment data to inform care and improve practice
  • Identifying strategies for integrating PCOC assessments into practice

The target audience for this webinar is clinicians from new services participating in PCOC and clinicians wanting to update their PCOC assessments skills.

Pre-requisites:

Register below to participate in one of the upcoming 2025 'Fundamentals Webinars'

Time: 14:00 - 16:00 (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra)

Click here to view and download the flyer for the Fundamentals Webinar featuring all dates and details of the webinar. 

The workshop entails a two-hour interactive program of learning. By the end of this workshop, you will be more able to use the PCOC assessment and response framework effectively as part of routine care. 

In this workshop participants will learn:

  • How to support and educate other healthcare professionals to use the PCOC assessment tools in routine practice
  • How to assess and respond clinically as informed by the PCOC assessment tools (Phase, RUG, AKPS, PCPSS, PCOC SAS)
  • Strategies for integrating routine assessments into clinical practice

The target audience for this workshop is: clinical leads, senior clinicians, PCOC champions, and trainers and educators from allied health, nursing and medicine.

Pre-requisites:

Register below to participate in one of the upcoming 2025 'Clinical leaders workshop; Implementing assessment and response framework'

Time:  14:00 - 16:00 (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra)

Click here to view and download the flyer for the Implementing Assessment and Response Workshop featuring all dates and details of the workshop. 

This workshop entails a two-hour interactive program of learning. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to use PCOC outcome data to drive change. This workshops focuses on:

  • Learning how to use and interpret clinical outcome data
  • Diving into PCOC data to drive change
  • Critically reflecting on how to use PCOC reports, including patient-level information
  • Using data to target an area for improvement
  • Using PCOC data to plan improvements
  • Applying quality improvement strategies to plan and drive change in practice

To attend this workshop, you will have to have completed PCOC’s clinical leadership workshop that focuses on PCOC’s assessment and response framework.

The target audience for this workshop includes clinicians and managers who are familiar with PCOC reports and assessment tools.

It is recommended that you attend this workshop with at least one other colleague from your service. A group from your service is welcome to attend, as this can help drive change. Participants are required to bring their most recent PCOC outcome report, and supplementary reports, as this will be used to help focus on improvements that are meaningful and relevant to your service.

Pre-requisites:

Register below to participate in one of the upcoming 2025 'Using PCOC Reports for QI Improvement' workshops.

Time: 14:00 - 16:00 (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra)

Click here to view and download the flyer for the Using PCOC Reports for QI Workshop featuring all dates and details of the workshop.

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PCOC is a national palliative care project funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.