Conference Program
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Day 0 - PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS Sunday 27 October 2024 |
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13.00 |
Breakout rooms available for VADANZ members to book for groups of up to 30 people. To arrange, please email [email protected] |
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15.00 |
VADANZ AGM (Annual General Meeting) An update on VADANZ achievements and voting for our next President Elect. Email [email protected] if you would like to nominate yourself or a colleague. Only VADANZ practising members are entitled to vote. Light refreshments will be available. |
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16.00 |
Clinical Session - VAD Updates from Australian and NZ jurisdictions All early arrivals welcome! An intimate and informal discussion of VAD, held under the Chatham House Rule. There will be an opportunity for questions. Professor Ben White (Australian Centre for Health Law Research) will be your Chair, joined by an expert panel: A/Prof Melanie Turner - Chair, South Australian VAD Review Board Louise Mollross - Chair, Tasmanian VAD Commission Dr Scott Blackwell - Chair, Western Australian VAD Review Board Julian Gardner - Chair, Victorian VAD Review Board A/Prof Helen Irving - Chair, Queensland VAD Review Board Dr Sara Townend - Clinical Director NSW VAD Access Service Toby Keene - Executive Branch Manager, Ageing & End of Life, ACT Dr Kerr Wright - Deputy Registrar, Regulation & Monitoring, Manatū Hauora (Ministry of Health), NZ |
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17.30 - 18.30 |
Networking drinks All early arrivals welcome! |
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Conference Day 1 - Monday 28 October 2024 - 8.30am - 5pm QUT Gardens Point Campus: Level 4, Z Block, Lamington Drive Plus optional evening events (see below) |
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8.30 |
Welcome with your conference MC Walkley Award winning journalist and broadcaster, Hamish Macdonald |
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8.50 |
The State of VAD in Australia and New Zealand Presentation of inaugural trans-Tasman report Dr Linda Swan, CEO, Go Gentle Australia |
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9.00 |
Keynote Address: Reimagining the way we die Dr Rob Grenfell, Chief of Strategy and Regions, Grampians Health |
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9.30 |
Panel: VAD Timeframes – safeguard or barrier? Many trans-Tasman VAD laws require a person to have 6-12 months left to live to be eligible. However, while this made legislators comfortable, many now question if timeframes are the best way to determine eligibility. Chaired by Hamish Macdonald with opening remarks from Dr Clare Fellingham Panel
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10.30 |
Morning tea |
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11.00 |
Panel: VAD and institutions: How best to allow conscientious objection, and avoid obstruction? In conversation with Andrew Denton and experts in their field to discuss how palliative care and VAD can overcome mutual suspicion and better align to best support the people we are all here to help. Panel
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12.00 |
VAD Research & Updates: Lightning Talks
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00 |
Loss of capacity and VAD Hamish Macdonald in conversation with Laury Colgan A Western Australian woman shares her experience with loss of capacity and VAD |
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14.15 |
Background and complexities of VAD and dementia Research and presentation by Dr Kylie Ladd |
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14.35 |
Panel: Loss of capacity and VAD If a person loses decision-making capacity during the VAD process, should – or even could – there be a way for them to access VAD? We consider the clinical and practical challenges surrounding this thorny issue, for which trans-Tasman VAD laws do not yet have an answer. Chaired by Hamish Macdonald Panel
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15.30 |
Afternoon tea |
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16.00 |
VAD Research & Updates: Rapid Fire Presentations
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16.30 |
The floor is yours We’re opening the floor to conference delegates to tell us about the one person you’ll always remember from your VAD career. |
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17.00 |
Close |
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17.00 - 17.30 |
Travel time A 15 minute walk or 10 minute drive to a city-centre hotel, VOCO Brisbane City |
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17.30 - 18.30 |
Networking drinks included in your conference ticket, but please register |
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18.30 - 21.00 |
Conference Dinner Hosted by Andrew Denton Dress code is smart casual e.g. come as you are! We will be presenting three awards at the dinner: Go Gentle Community Champion Award VADANZ Innovation Award for Emerging Research in VAD The Dr Rodney Syme Medal Would you like to make a nomination? Click here to find out more and nominate someone you know |
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DAY 2 - Tuesday 29 October 2024 - 8am - 4pm |
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8.00 |
Welcome back and reflections on Day 1 |
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8.15 |
Panel: Future-proofing the VAD workforce Workforce pressures may be the biggest threat to the safe, equitable and timely delivery of VAD care. How can we recruit VAD health professionals, and how can we keep them? Chaired by Dr Linda Swan with opening remarks from Prof Liz Reymond Panel Prof Liz Reymond - palliative care physician and Director of Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Support and Pharmacy Service Dr Wade Stedman - Intensive Care Medicine Specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, and VAD Clinical Lead in NSW Rachel Backhouse - Assistant Director of Nursing, Canberra Health Services |
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9.15 |
Concurrent research sessions on the themes of Access and Equity Stream 1 - Auditorium What are the factors that influence access to VAD services? - Dr Jayne Hewitt, Griffith University WA VAD Statewide Pharmacy Service Research (SWPS) Gap Analysis 2024 - Niki Ferreira, VAD Statewide Pharmacy Service Barriers to Implementation of VAD in Rural and Regional Tasmania - Kelly Stone, University of Tasmania, TAS Experiences of the first year of VAD in Queensland - Dr Laura Ley Greaves, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT Stream 2 - The room opposite Optimal Regulation of VAD: Lessons from a Canadian Case Study - Dr Eliana Close, Australian Centre for Health Law Research VAD grief & bereavement support: learnings from an Australian-first pilot program - Jane Nosworthy, Dying with Dignity VIC and Kerri Arthur, Griefline Experience with the Statewide NSW Medical Outreach Access Service - Julie Letts, Director of VAD Support Service, NSW Regulating VAD at the Coalface: Qualitative study with Victorian regulators - Casey Haining, Australian Centre for Health Law Research |
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10.15 |
Morning tea |
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10.45 |
VADANZ - the year ahead The peak body for Australian and New Zealand VAD health professionals shares its first year: progress, challenges and plans for 2024/25 Dr Sally Cockburn, President |
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11.00 |
Concurrent Research presentations on the themes of adapting to a person’s needs, and clinical care Stream 3: Adapting to a person’s needs New Care Plan for enhanced cultural support in VAD - Dr John Britten - Metro South, QLD Culturally diverse perspectives on assisted dying - Prof Melissa Bloomer, Critical Care Nursing, Griffith University Responding to patient needs at the end of life - Caroline Scott, Response to VAD Program Manager, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, VIC Balancing Compassion and Controversy - Susan Fryer, Nurse Practitioner, Tōtara Hospice, NZ Stream 4: VAD clinical care Healthcare worker perceptions of VAD across service settings - Josh Fear, National Policy Director, Palliative Care Australia Working collaboratively with VAD in a regional palliative care service - Maxine Rose, Nurse Unit Manager Palliative Care, Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service, QLD Organ and Tissue Donation after VAD - knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of Victorian VAD clinicians - Dr Martin Dutch, Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC Cannulation Challenges: Supporting VAD Practitioners - Ciara Johnston, Pharmacist with WA’s VAD Statewide Pharmacy Service |
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12.00 |
Lunch |
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13.00 |
Quick look: How do health professionals look after themselves? Kristen Kappel, Clinical Psychologist, Victorian Statewide VAD Care Navigator Service |
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13.15 |
Have your say: Vote on 2024/25 VAD policy priorities with Dr Linda Swan |
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13.30 |
Panel: VAD Administration: When, where and how? Is there a ‘right’ time to die? What happens in the case of family conflict or something unexpected? And what are some of the weird and wonderful final wishes that we have? Chaired by Susan Jury - Director of the Statewide VAD Care Navigator Service in Victoria Panel Dr Jess Young - Senior Research Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Lisa Blyth - Clinical Nurse Consultant, Metro North VAD, QLD Dr Kathy Reed - a VAD practitioner working in rural NSW (Hunter New England) Eliza Armstrong - VAD Care Coordinator, Eastern Health, Victoria |
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14.30 |
Afternoon tea |
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15.00 |
Priorities for improving VAD: Reflections from a 7-year research program Professors Lindy Willmott and Ben White |
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15.30 |
Closing remarks Dr Linda Swan |
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15.40 |
Reflections and close Hamish Macdonald |
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15.45 |
Close |
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