Palliative Care

Our Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Consultant provides palliative support across Bass Coast Health.

With specialist palliative knowledge and experience, there is a commitment to providing high quality care and support to individuals and their carers living with a range of life-limiting illnesses. 

The priority is providing holistic care to manage the physical, spiritual, emotional and social symptoms that align with an individual’s preferences and wishes to ensure quality of life. 

The Consultant works with a multi-disciplinary approach alongside medical teams, allied health and nursing staff ensures a collaborative approach to patient-centred care. 

The Consultant helps with the coordination of care for individuals between the inpatient palliative setting, community palliative setting and also specialist reviews as required with Palliative Physician Dr Hana Thompson or Palliative Care Consultancy Gippsland.

For further information about Palliative Care services at Bass Coast Health please contact Palliative Care Coordinator Lisa Thornhill, Monday-Thursday, 7.30am-4pm, 0475 388 485 or email lisa.thornhill@basscoasthealth.org.au

For further information about Community Palliative Care at BCH please contact District Nursing and Palliative Care Intake team 5671 9219 or email district.nursing@basscoasthealth.org.au