Reports and researchers
Volunteer management
Palliative Care Volunteering Strategy 2013-2016 (Palliative Care Victoria) (2013)
Way2Go Volunteering Toolkit for Volunteer Managers 2012 (NSW)
Scott, R., Howlett S., Doyle D. (Eds) (2009) Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Resource for Voluntary Service Managers, Oxford University Press: Oxford
Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement: An audit tool (2006)
Palliative Care Volunteer Engagement Standards (Volunteering Victoria) (2006)
NSW Health and Volunteer Services Policy
NSW Volunteering Strategy (2012)
NSW Government plan to increase access to palliative care 2012-2016
NSW Health Framework for engaging, supporting and managing volunteers (2011)
Volunteer Program Guidelines for NSW Health Services (in development)
State-wide Framework for Palliative Care Volunteer Services (in development)
Recent reports
Volunteering: Vital to our future – Help the Hospices and Together for Short Lives (2014) (UK)
Dying Well – Grattan Institute (2014) (Australia)
Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life (2014)
Noted researchers and academics in the field of palliative care volunteering
- Role ambiguity, role conflict, or burnout: are these areas of concern for Australian palliative care volunteers? Pilot study results (2014)
- Volunteering: Vital to our future (2014)
- Making volunteers count (2011)
- Scott, R., Howlett S., Doyle D. (Eds) (2009) Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Resource for Voluntary Service Managers, Oxford University Press: Oxford
Stephen Claxton-Oldfield (Canada)
- Perceived barriers and enablers to referrals to community-based hospice and palliative care programs in Canada (2014)
- A narrative literature review of the contribution of volunteers in end of life services (2012)
- ‘A bridge to the hospice’: The impact of a community volunteer programme in Uganda (2011)
- Personality characteristics of hospice palliative care volunteers: The ‘Big Five’ and empathy (2010)
- A survey of family members’ satisfaction with the services provided by hospice palliative care volunteers (2010)
- Imagine you were dying: Would you be interested in having a hospice palliative care volunteer? (2009)
- Some common problems faced by hospice palliative care volunteers (2008)
- Keeping hospice palliative care volunteers on board: Dealing with issues of volunteer attrition, stress and retention (2008)
- Nurses perceptions of hospice palliative care volunteers (2008)
- The impact of volunteering in hospice palliative care (2007)
- What palliative care volunteers would like to know about the patients they are being asked to support (2006)