1 April 2022 | NACCHO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health News [Video]

• Culturally responsive palliative care
• The Glen for Women opens doors
• 80% of mob over 16 have had two doses
• CTG Dashboard update
• New BCNA First Peoples resources
• National Pancreatic Cancer Roadmap release
• Hepatitis elimination needs longer-term funding
• Health disparities for LGBTQIA+ people
• New process for job advertising
• Save the Date – World Health Day; Parkinson’s Awareness Month

The Palliative care curriculum for undergraduates (PCC4U) project has launched the Caring for Australian Indigenous peoples affected by life-limiting illness toolkit. The PCC4U is a QUT-led initiative funded by the Australian Government Department of Health to support development of graduate capabilities in palliative care.

National Indigenous Project Manager, Nicole Hewlett, a Palawa woman from Lutruwita (Tasmania), from the QUT School of Nursing worked with PCC4U to ensure culturally safe resources are developed and delivered. She said the new toolkit formed part of the PCC4U curriculum for educators, health and aged care providers, and would bring greater awareness to inequity. “Given the history, trauma and current experience of racism in healthcare, it can …