WESTERN NSW Local Health District Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Consultant, Alison Dawes, believes patients and carers will benefit most from the two-day Dying to Know conference that was held in Dubbo on Thursday and Friday.
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Nurses, doctors and allied health professionals from around NSW attended the conference, which focused on integrating palliative care approaches to chronic and life-limiting illnesses.
About 200 people attended each day, sharing their experiences and knowledge with each other of different ways to treat people with life threatening illnesses.
It is the sharing of knowledge which Ms Dawes believes will greatly help health professionals in day-to-day dealings with patients.
"The theme is about developing networks of care, and how we can utilise these networks to care for people with serious illness," Ms Dawes said.
"There is a lot of experts at these seminars who specialise in different areas.
"We will all be able to take something away that will help people in palliative care and the families of those people."
NSW Palliative Care Program Manager, Alex Huntir, was pleased with the amount of people who made the effort to attend the seminar.
"We've had an all star cast with people from all over the state attending," Mr Huntir said.
"It has been very valuable for those people to get out of their natural setting and reflect on the services we provide and the different methods that are available.
"Seminars like this help professionals and also help the community members who are looking after a loved one."
Following the bi-annual conference, feedback will be sought which will be used to provide the theme and content for the next conference.