Mt Druitt Supportive and Palliative Care Unit welcomes back volunteers
After a 12-month suspension of face-to-face volunteering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supportive Care volunteer team is back visiting patients at the Mt Druitt ...
Registrations and Abstracts open for 2019 NSW Palliative Care Volunteer Conference
2019 NSW Palliative Care Volunteer Conference 3-4 June Blacktown. We are pleased to announce that the next volunteers conference will be held in Blacktown next ...
Western Sydney community forum to discuss supportive and palliative care 17th October
17th October 2018, Blacktown. After a successful event in 2017 the Mount Druitt Hospital Supportive & Palliative Care team are holding another community forum to ...
Mt Druitt Supportive and Palliative Care volunteers begin writing biographies and life stories with their clients
The Supportive Care Volunteer Service in Western Sydney Local Health District has recently expanded their service. Volunteers there are excited to now be able to ...
Volunteers dip into Salsa for National Volunteer Week
Click here to see the original story in The Pulse. Volunteers from Blacktown Hospital’s palliative and supportive care service salsa danced their kind and generous ...
10 Things to know before you go – Mt Druitt Workshop
29th May 2018 The Western Sydney LHD Palliative Care Volunteer service and the Groundswell Project are hosting a ‘10 Things to Know Before You Go’ ...
A mosaic of talent gets stuck into Mt Druitt’s 20th birthday celebrations
Read the original story in The Pulse. The Supportive and Palliative Care Unit at Mount Druitt Hospital will be turning 20 on 19th June. To mark ...
Forum on Spirituality and Reflective Practice – Western Sydney event date change!
Note new date: Monday 16th April 2018, 0930-1200, Mt Druitt Hub 9 Ayers Grove, Mt Druitt Attention Western Sydney! Spirituality is a fundamental element of ...
Western Sydney Supportive Care Volunteers celebrate their first anniversary
When Palliative Care NSW completed their mapping exercise in 2014 Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) was the only health district to have no palliative ...
Westmead Hospital welcomes first Palliative Care Volunteers
Palliative and Supportive Care patients at Westmead Hospital will now benefit, for the first time, from involvement by Palliative Care Volunteers. Kylie Clark, Palliative Care ...
New candidates prepare for supportive and palliative care volunteering in Western Sydney
The Western Sydney Supportive Care Volunteer Service recently welcomed 18 new recruits, including 8 who will commence their roles at Westmead Hospital. They will provide ...
Nurturing skills in self-care for volunteers at Leep
Event 18th July 2017 – Free for locals, the technology and volunteer not for profit organisation Leep is offering a course on Self-Care for volunteers. ...
Mt Druitt community forum talks about supportive care in National Palliative Care Week
Panel members of the Western Sydney Community Forum on Palliative Care spoke to a packed venue in Rooty Hill. Chaired by Dr Philip Lee, the ...
Western Sydney Community Forum to discuss Palliative Care Wednesday 24th May
For National Palliative Care Week the Mt Druitt Supportive and Palliative Care Unit has organised a Community Forum with experts in the field including Dr ...
How can we improve health literacy in diverse communities? Westmead, Monday 8th May
Interested in health literacy? Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) has identified improved health literacy for western Sydney as one of its key priorities. ‘How ...
Position vacant – Silver Chain Volunteer Coordinator in Western Sydney
Silver Chain are recruiting for a Volunteer Coordinator in the Western Sydney region for a new initiative within their Community Specialist Palliative Care team. Silver ...
Mount Druitt’s palliative care unit brighten by Bunnings volunteers
See the original story by Heath Parkes-Hupton in the St Marys-Mt Druitt Star. Beneath gray skies in western Sydney on Thursday a rainbow appeared at Mount ...
With a little bit of help: Meeting the challenges of grief and bereavement in Western Sydney
In an average year Kristin Bindley oversees 5 memorial services across 2 sites in Western Sydney Local Health District involving some 820 invitations to recently ...
Only 3 weeks to go! Managing Volunteers – Understanding the Legal Issues Workshop 23rd March 2017
Only 3 weeks to go! This free full day workshop will provide essential training for anyone in a position of managing or co-ordinating palliative care ...
Blacktown Hospital’s palliative care ward calls on big-hearted residents
See the original story in the Blacktown Advocate 14 February 2017. Big hearted residents are being called to donate time and compassion to patients at ...