Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) update 08/17/09: 
For more information on CCO's new Palliative Care Program, select the link below
Inaugural Palliative Care Program brochure
Click here to visit CCO's website
 

The Provincial Palliative Care Integration Project (PPCIP) is a continuous quality improvement project focused directly on improving the quality of hospice palliative/end-of-life care in Ontario. This project started with Cancer Care Ontario as an effort to improve care for cancer patients. The Network has a mandate to extend the scope of the project beyond the cancer population and offered eight educational sessions across the HNHB LHIN area from November 2007 to March 2008 for family physicians and interdisciplinary health care providers. Contact the network for more information on PPCIP and its tools.

PPCIP Quality Improvement 
·         Improved communication and liaison between health care professionals and across
          health sectors, using standardized tools, collaborative care plans, and symptom management 
          guidelines
·         Increased patient and provider awareness of available resources
·         Enhanced service coordination

PPCIP Improved Outcomes
·         Increased patient satisfaction (e.g. empowerment, decreased symptom intensity, improved
          care access and delivery)
·         Increased health provider satisfaction (e.g. increased efficiency, improved management of 
          patients’ care delivery)

Common Assessment and Case Management Tools (formerly PPCIP Tools)

The CCO Toolbox has descriptions and provides copies for download of the
Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) and Symptom Management Guidelines (SMGs) see Symptom Management Tools

Collaborative Care Plans (CCPs),and the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) see Palliative Care Tools