The Home Hospice Capacity Dashboard provides real-time info on vacancies, saving doctors time when making referrals.
SINGAPORE – A new portal that helps doctors expedite hospice care referrals could help to make palliative care more accessible to the community.
The portal is part of SHC’s efforts to facilitate easier access to palliative care for the community in a rapidly ageing Singapore. It was launched in December 2023 and now has about 400 users. “The focus is shifting to palliative care being everybody’s business, and to make it easy non-palliative care healthcare professionals,” she added.
“We are taking in patients with limited prognosis, but some of them are with us for a few months, and so some of those services which are very stretched will stop taking new cases.What happens is that they would be notified by the provider only after a referral was made, he added. Dr Jennifer Guan, a consultant in Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s palliative medicine department, recalled a case that happened before December 2023 where she had a referral rejected for a patient with end-stage renal failure because of a lack of vacancies.
Another doctor who has used the dashboard, Dr Clare Tay, has also had multiple referrals rejected previously because the home hospices were at maximum capacity.
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