NSW Ambulance paramedics are able to assist people receiving palliative care.
The following fact sheet has been created to assist patients and their families/carers to better understand the role paramedics play in palliative care.
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Important changes to paramedics’ role in palliative care.
The paramedic scope of practice was expanded in the NSW Ambulance 2020 Protocol and Pharmacology update to incorporate medications administration for the management of distressing palliative care symptoms. This protocol enhancement provides further flexibility and broadens the paramedic skillset, to respond to and manage patient needs at the point of care. Now that palliative care medications are within the paramedic scope of practice, doctors do not need to submit a NSW Ambulance Authorised Care plan for patients to receive palliative care medications.
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