Care at End of Life - SEED Innovators

Overview

Initiative type

Service Improvement

Status

Deliver

Published

22 August 2019

Summary

The Care at End of Life SEED (Support, Explore, Excel, Deliver) Innovation Program is an initiative that helps to strengthen the capacity of Queensland health services to respond to the needs of those with a progressive life-limiting illness.

SEED funding is accessible to inspirational and creative staff from across Queensland Health to find new and improved ways of delivering care at the end of life for the benefit of our patients, their carers and family members. Now in its fourth year, SEED Innovation Funding continues to build a culture of innovation and excellence from the ground-up. Applications are invited annually, and successful projects:

Key dates

Jun 2016

Implementation sites

Darling Downs HHS, Sunshine Coast HHS, Metro North HHS, Paediatric Palliative Care Service, Children’s Health Queensland, Gold Coast HHS, Townsville HHS

Partnerships

Statewide Clinical Networks, Consumers, PHN’s, Queensland Ambulance Service, GP’s, Aged Care, Health Law Experts, Academia, Rural and Remote Health, Spiritual Care

Aim

To cultivate ideas which help improve outcomes for patients, through new processes, resources and partnerships.

Benefits

  • Builds a culture of innovation and excellence.
  • Deliver efficiencies and improve continuity and quality of care for patients.

Background

The Care at the End of Life project team was established to support a coordinated approach to implementing the Strategy across Queensland. Queensland Health's Clinical Excellence Queensland coordinates the implementation of the project, in collaboration with each Hospital and Health Service.

Solutions implemented

The following SEED projects have been funded to trial innovative ways to deliver quality healthcare;

2016-2017 projects

Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service - Advance Care Yarning Electronic Application Development.

Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service - Building capacity for end of life care outside of specialist palliative care settings.

2017-2018 projects

Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service - Consumer and Community Perspectives on Care at the End of Life on the Sunshine Coast.

Metro North Hospital and Health Service - The Rainy-Day care bundle.

Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service - Terminal Phase Care Pathway in the Emergency Department.

2018-2019 projects

Paediatric Palliative Care Service (PPCS) & Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service - Development of a Care Plan for the Dying Child (CPDC).

Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service - Supporting discharge from hospital to enable dying at home.

Metro North Hospital and Health Service - Giving ‘VOICE’ to the Bereaved – the evaluation of ‘CODE’ in and Australian Acute Care setting.

Townsville Hospital and Health Service - End-of-life conversation simulation based education.

2019-2020 projects

Metro South Hospital and Health Service - Improving patient choice and autonomy at the end-of-life: eating and drinking decision for quality of life.

West Moreton Hospital and Health Service - Paramedic Toolkit for Care at End of Life.

Key contact

Allison Lovell

Project Manager

Healthcare Improvement Unit

Email:  CareAtEOL@health.qld.gov.au

Last updated: April 2025

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