The Palliative Care in Prisons Project aims to improve access to best evidence-based, culturally-safe, high-quality palliative and end-of-life care for people in prisons, through the collaborative co-design of a new National Framework for the Provision of Palliative Care in Australian Prisons.
Project dates:
Commenced: 2020
Completion Due: 2025
The Palliative Care in Prisons Project is led by Professor Jane Phillips and is comprised of five distinct phases.
This five-year co-design project (July 2020-June 2025) aims to understand current palliative care provision in Australian prisons and to identify the barriers to and facilitators of evidence-based palliative and end-of-life care.
The Project Consortia will co-design a National Framework for the Provision of Palliative Care in Australian Prisons (National Framework) with Project Partners and key stakeholders using a collaborative and solution-oriented approach.
For more information, please visit the official research page: Palliative Care in Prisons Project | IMPACCT (uts.edu.au)
Funding / Grants
- The $1.2M National Palliative Care in Prisons Project (4-E1QGPSQ) is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health: Public Health and Chronic Disease Grant Program, as part of the National Palliative Care Projects initiative. (2020 - 2025)
Chief Investigators
Team
Other Team Members
Co-Investigators:
- Associate Professor Penelope Abbott
- Professor Meera Agar
- Dr Michael Chapman
- Professor Katherine Clark
- Professor David Currow
- Associate Professor Michelle DiGiacomo
- Associate Professor Nicole Heneka
- Professor Louise Hickman
- Dr Jocelyn Jones
- Dr Irina Kinchin
- Professor Nick Lintzeris
- Professor Liz Lobb
- Dr Tim Luckett
- Dr Stacey Panozzo
- Professor Deborah Parker
- Professor Jennifer Philip
- Dr Christine Sanderson
- Ms Isabelle Schaefer
- Professor John Scott
- Robert Shaw
- Professor Megan Williams
Project team:
- Kim Offner (Project Manager)
- Isabelle Schaefer (Project Officer)
- Sally Fielding (Project Officer)
Partners
Other Partners
National Partner:
Palliative Care Australia
ACT: (ACT Justice Health, Canberra Health Service); NSW: (Calvary Health Care Kogarah (2020-2023), Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE), Western Sydney University, Corrective Services NSW); NT: (NT Department of Correctional Services, NT Department of Health); QLD: (Queensland Health, Office for Prisoner Health and Wellbeing, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), QUT- Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) Queensland Corrective Services); SA: (SA Prison Health Service, Department for Correctional Services); TAS: (Tasmanian Health Services, Tasmanian Prison Service); VIC: (Correct Care Australasia (2020-2023), Justice Health Victoria, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Palliative Medicine Research Group, Corrections Victoria); WA: (WA Corrective Health Services, Department of Justice, Curtin University); National Partner: (Palliative Care Australia)
