Palliative care knowledge and resoruces

We’re working towards a future where every person receives the care they need, when they need it most.

Let’s do it together.

We offer palliative care and dementia training, consulting and resources. Get in touch to find out more by completing the form below.

Palliative Care Foundations

Equip your teams with essential knowledge for effective and safe delivery of palliative care. Topics include advance care planning, legal and ethical issues, communication strategies and dignity and care at end of life.

Advanced Practice in Palliative Care

Focusing on physical and psychological symptoms in palliative care, these workshops cover management of fatigue, depression and complex pain, pharmacology, psychosocial issues and more.

Dementia Training

We offer a range of workshops on topics like understanding dementia and changed behaviours, meaningful engagement, sexuality, intimacy and dementia and trauma-informed support.

The Last Days Program

Talk to us about working together to deliver Last Days, a program to equip families and carers with knowledge and tools to support people with a life-limiting illness and improve death literacy in your community.

Our palliative staff specialists

HammondCare’s palliative care services are led by an experienced and respected team of leaders in the field of palliative and supportive care. This includes leading palliative care medical specialists and researchers striving for excellence in clinical care and better outcomes for patients.

Josephine Clayton

Director of Palliative Care Research & Learning, The Palliative Centre

Melanie Lovell

Senior Academic, Palliative Care Research & Learning, The Palliative Centre

Sarah Thompson

Medical Director and Staff Specialist, Neringah Hospital

Amy Chow

Director of Palliative Care, Braeside Hospital and Palliative Care Research Lead at Braeside Hospital, Palliative Care Research & Learning, The Palliative Centre

Abigail Franklin

Staff Specialist, Northern Beaches Hospital

Peter Roach

Staff Specialist, Northern Beaches Community Palliative Care Service

Mariclaire Francisco

Staff Specialist, Braeside Hospital

Victor Sze

Staff Specialist, Greenwich Hospital

Martin Kennedy

Senior Staff Specialist, Community

Dr Shawna Koh

Staff Specialist, Greenwich Community Palliative Care Service

Dr Eddy Thientosapol

Staff Specialist, Northern Beaches Hospital

Philip Macaulay

Staff Specialist

Dr Wei Lee

Senior lecturer in the USYD Northern Clinical School

Josephine Clayton

Director of Palliative Care Research & Learning, The Palliative Centre

Melanie Lovell

Senior Academic, Palliative Care Research & Learning, The Palliative Centre

Sarah Thompson

Medical Director and Staff Specialist, Neringah Hospital

Amy Chow

Director of Palliative Care, Braeside Hospital and Palliative Care Research Lead at Braeside Hospital, Palliative Care Research & Learning, The Palliative Centre

Abigail Franklin

Staff Specialist, Northern Beaches Hospital

Peter Roach

Staff Specialist, Northern Beaches Community Palliative Care Service

Mariclaire Francisco

Staff Specialist, Braeside Hospital

Victor Sze

Staff Specialist, Greenwich Hospital

Martin Kennedy

Senior Staff Specialist, Community

Dr Shawna Koh

Staff Specialist, Greenwich Community Palliative Care Service

Dr Eddy Thientosapol

Staff Specialist, Northern Beaches Hospital

Philip Macaulay

Staff Specialist

Dr Wei Lee

Senior lecturer in the USYD Northern Clinical School

Thank you for visiting us at the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference

Thank you for visiting us at the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference

Thank you for visiting us at the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference

Thank you for visiting us at the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference

We’re working towards a future where every person receives the care they need, when they need it most.

Let’s do it together.

Palliative Care Foundations

Advanced Practice in Palliative Care

Dementia Training

The Last Days Program