Complementary Care Archives - PatchSA https://patchsa.org/category/complementary-care/ People who care supporting people who care Wed, 06 Sep 2023 07:52:54 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 History in the making – developing national guidance for providing palliative care https://patchsa.org/developing-national-guidance-for-providing-palliative-care/ https://patchsa.org/developing-national-guidance-for-providing-palliative-care/#respond Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:09:16 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3432 12 December 2021 History was made last week when a group of palliative care experts from the country met in Gauteng to start the process of developing National Guidelines on Palliative Care with the support of the National Department of Health. For the first time in the history of the development of palliative care [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/developing-national-guidance-for-providing-palliative-care/feed/ 0 How can speech and language therapy enhance the palliative care journey? https://patchsa.org/how-speech-language-therapy-enhance-palliative-care-journey/ https://patchsa.org/how-speech-language-therapy-enhance-palliative-care-journey/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:49:56 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3329 18 August 2021 Colleen Francis, a Speech Language Pathologist, describes her journey of discovery about palliative care and her thoughts on the valuable role Speech Language Therapists can play within the palliative care and children's palliative care team. As Speech Therapy students we were taught that we play a role throughout a person’s life, [...]

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