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Palliative Care

Palliative Care

Palliative care aims to give the best possible quality of life to someone living with a life-limiting or terminal illness. It helps people live their life as fully and as comfortably as possible. It is not the same as end-of-life care, which is care given during the last few weeks of life. Palliative care can be helpful at any stage of an illness. Some people receive palliative care for years.

Aged Care Assessment

The Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT), conduct comprehensive assessments of the care needs of older people with complex needs and help them access the most suitable types of care, including approval for Commonwealth subsidised aged care.

Antenatal & Postnatal Care

Antenatal care is the care you receive during pregnancy.

Antenatal & Postnatal

Antenatal care is the care you receive during pregnancy.

Chronic Disease Management

The Chronic Care/Disease Management team works with patients in relation to general and individual health concerns, they also support patients to plan for health care and treatments associated with a wide range of chronic illnesses.

Emergency Department

An emergency department (ED) is part of a hospital that provides 24-hour emergency care to patients who need urgent medical attention. Most public hospitals in Australia have an emergency department. Only people with severe injury or illness should go to the ED.

Home and Community Care (HACC)

Home Care services provides community-based services to assist clients over 65 years of age or First Nations peoples over 50 years of age to receive support and care in their home and their community.

Mental Health

Mental Health service delivers specialised assessment, clinical treatment, and rehabilitation services to reduce symptoms of mental illness and facilitate recovery across all age groups.

Mental Health

Mental Health service delivers specialised assessment, clinical treatment, and rehabilitation services to reduce symptoms of mental illness and facilitate recovery across all age groups. Mental Health services are focused on providing care to clients who experience the most severe forms of mental illness and behavioural disturbances.

Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy service aims to restore and maintain mobility, function, and well-being for clients with new symptoms, existing long-term symptoms, or provide strategies for prevention of disease and injury. Physiotherapy service is provided to clients across all age groups with movement and other disorders and provides supportive end-of-life and terminal illness care.

Quilpie Medical Practice

A general practitioner (or doctor) manages types of illness which may require intervention. They have specific skills in treating people with multiple health issues and can treat patients of any age and gender.

Quilpie Multipurpose Health Service

Quilpie Multi-Purpose Health Service (MPHS) is located in the South West Hospital and Health Service (SWHHS). The MPHS is located approximately 950 kilometres west of Brisbane and 222 kilometres from Charleville in the Far South West planning regions.

Quilpie Shire Council, South West Primary Care Pilot Program

The SW QLD, Care Collective- Partnering with the local community to improve the health and wellbeing of those living with complex health conditions. Community Services Coordination, identifying health services available, Coordination with patients and Health Practitioners to source appropriate, timely Health care. Located at The Quilpie Shire Council office 9.00am-1.30pm Monday to Thursday

Wound Management

Wound Care services are offered to clients with chronic and complex wounds to provide comprehensive and cohesive care to optimise wound healing.

Wound Management

Wound Care services are offered to clients with chronic and complex wounds to provide comprehensive and cohesive care to optimise wound healing. Wound Care services are provided in collaboration with other allied health services.