One Advance Care Plan saves 9 occupied bed days per annum at Metro South
Professor Liz Reymond from Metro South Palliative Care Service shared how they are currently supporting about 25% of their patients aged over 70 who stay in hospital more than 5 days to contemplate an ACP and record an outcome.
For more information about the metro south initiatives to improve the quality of end of life care see the presentation here.
For other innovations from the end of
life meeting
click here.