Applications

1159 – Palliative Care consultation Items

Find out about the service or technology in this application and the medical condition it addresses. You can also view the application documents, the deadlines for providing consultation input and the outcome of the application when the MSAC process is complete.

  • Status Complete
  • Type -
  • Pre-PASC consultation -
  • Pre-MSAC consultation -
  • Outcome -

Application details

Reason for application

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Service or technology in this application

The introduction of new MBS palliative care consultation items for the assessment, review of treatment and management of palliative care patients.

Medical condition this application addresses

Palliative medicine is not a medical condition, however, it is the study and management of patients with active, progressive, far advanced disease, for which the prognosis is limited and the focus of care is the quality of life. Patients who access palliative care are diagnosed with life-limiting illnesses that may include cancer, neurodegenerative disorders such as motor neuron disease and dementia, stroke, organ failure and multiple sclerosis.

The main work of specialists in Palliative Medicine is to provide comprehensive assessments and management of patients with complex symptom control problems in the setting of multiple co-morbidities. Assessment and management is not limited to physical symptoms but includes social, psychological and spiritual aspects of care also. Palliative Medicine includes support for families and involvement in bereavement care.

Meetings to consider this application

  • PASC meeting: 
    • 14 - 15 September 2011
    • 12 - 13 April 2012
  • ESC meeting:
    • 13 -14 February 2014
  • MSAC meeting: 
    • 3 - 4 April 2014