Palliative Care
The goal of Palliative Care is to improve your symptoms and help you and your family achieve the best possible quality of life throughout your illness.
It is not just for patients who are dying, it aims to assist anyone with a life-limiting diagnosis.
The Palliative Care Team will discuss your feelings, values and wishes for your own care and are available at any stage of your illness.
| Doctor | Position | Clinic days |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Camilla Chen | Senior Staff Specialist - Palliative Care | Friday |
If you live in the Sutherland Shire Region and have a suspected or confirmed cancer, you may be referred by your local family doctor or a medical specialist to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter together with all relevant test results.
Once we have received a completed referral, we will call you to make a time for your appointment and let you know any information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 02 9540 8140.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card, or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (eg workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
Please let us know if you require an interpreter.
We will contact the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) and organise an interpreter for the language you speak. They will then provide translation over the phone between yourself and the healthcare professional wishing to speak with you.
This service is free of charge.
We are a teaching hospital and student doctors or nurses may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit.
You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will no impact in any way on the services we will provide.
We will discuss with you any research projects that are relevant to your condition and whether you would like to participate.