Educational Needs in Supportive and End of Life Care

With variable availability of RSC programmes available throughout Australia and New Zealand, there is a need for provision of training in this area to be available to all medical and paramedical staff On-line resources may be a potential source of training material for staff and information for patients and families. The possibility of exchange programmes between renal medicine and palliative care should be explored as a way of enhancing education in both fields. The ANZSN and the ANZ Society of Palliative Care both have special interest groups in RSC. The potential for bringing these two groups together to facilitate cross-specialty training should be explored.