Funding Fight

In an era where healthcare costs are soaring, the latest research provides a beacon of hope for effective and affordable end-of-life care. The groundbreaking study, “Feasibility and Economic Benefits of Community-Based Palliative Care in Regional Australia,” presents an in-depth analysis of Little Haven Palliative Care, a leading organization setting new standards in palliative care delivery.

In the latest Little Haven Newsletter, CEO Sue Manton has asked the newsletter recipients for help in the funding fight with the Queensland Government. With the current State Government funding offer Little Haven will have a deficit of $1 million dollars this year following a $550,000 deficit last year. The Gympie Times has launched the

First Published on Gympie Times, April 8th 2018.By Press Release From Wide Bay MP Llew O’Brien Incredibly 5 years on and we are still fighting to get the State Government to work with us to develop a fair, equitable and transparent funding model for the Little Haven Community Based Palliative Care model. The Press Release

First published on the Gympie Times, August 16th 2023 as part of the Gympie Times “Save Little Haven” campaign. Author: Christine Schindler Watch the Gympie Times / Courier Mail video with Journalist Christine Schindler and Little Haven Business Manager Sue Manton. The Qld government has thrown Gympie’s Little Haven Palliative Care a crumb of hope after details

First published on the Gympie Times, August 13th 2023 as part of the Gympie Times “Save Little Haven” campaign. Author: Christine Schindler As we continue our campaign to Save Little Haven, a respected local doctor has outlined the vital importance of sustainable, community-based palliative care in regional Queensland. Having a sustainable community-based palliative care in regional Queensland

7News Sunshine Coast news story. August 11th 2023. Little Havens Multi Million Dollar State Government funding shortfall was an item on 7 nightly news. Watch the video below.

First published on the Gympie Times, August 10th 2023 as part of the Gympie Times “Save Little Haven” campaign. Author: Christine Schindler The grieving best friend of a Gympie woman who was able to die in her own home thanks to Little Haven has detailed her final difficult months and everything the organisation did to

First Published on the Gympie Times, August 9th, 2023. By Christine Schindler Gympie’s beloved, gold standard palliative care provider is in its own fight for life, after being let down by a state government funding offer so small the organisation fears it will have to close its books. Little Haven business manager Sue Manton is

Disappointingly once again we are facing a funding challenge as our 4 year Queensland Health funding agreement comes to an end in June 2023. In April 2023, CEO Sue Manton & Board President Brandy Murley met with representatives from Queensland Health, hopeful that they would be discussing as part of the contract renewal process an

Tuesday 25th May 2021. ABC Radio’s Drive program. ABC Drive host Annie Gaffney’s interview with Little Haven Palliative Care CEO Sue Manton.    

Little Haven CEO invited to join other Specialist Health Care providers as a witness at Public Hearings held in Caloundra on May 3rd. It was a great opportunity for Sue Manton and Alex Moore (Cittimani) to highlight the benefits of our hospice models of care in providing quality end of life care to our communities

With the Queensland Parliamentary Health, Communities, Disability Services and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee is seeking  views on aged care, end-of-life and palliative care and voluntary assisted dying Little Haven CEO – Sue Manton, Clinical Coordinator Bronwyn McFarlane and Clinical Nurse Caroline Mandersloot took the opportunity to provide our insights and views into palliative

Little Haven was invited by Ben Phipps (Officer in Charge Cooroy QAS) to present at a forum in Cooroy to talk about interaction with paramedics in the setting of out of hospital palliative care. Little Haven had been involved in the care of Ben’s paramedic partner and Ben was impressed by the level of community

After years of advocy and working with QLD Government Health Ministers and QHealth we where delighted that on Thursday the 14th of March 2019 Queensland Health Minister the Hon Dr Steven Miles MP publically announced a huge increase in funding for Little Haven over the next 4 years. The announcement of $4m in State funding

Federal Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien today visited Little Haven to officially announce that he has secured $750,000 funding to be delivered as $250,000 annually over the next 3 years from the Federal Government for Little Haven. This funding is the result of 2 years of continuous lobbying culminating in Llew O’Brien MP securing

In the lead up to National Palliative Care Week Little Haven CEO Sue Manton requested a face to face meeting with QLD Health Minister the Hon Dr Steven Miles. The meeting request was to further discuss the current review of Palliative Care policy, community based palliative care and the recently released Productivity Commission Report into

On the 9th October 2018, President Brandy Murley and CEO Sue Manton met with current Qld Health Minister Dr Steven Miles MP. The meeting which was requested by Little Haven in May 2018 was held at the ministers Brisbane office to discuss the current Palliative Care Policy review progress and specifically get some answers to

Extract from CEO AGM Report;   This week In writing my report I emailed  Nick Steele, (Deputy Director General Qld Health) and David Harmer (Senior Director, Strategy Policy & Legislation Branch) reminding them “It’s now a year since we met with the then Qld Health Minister, Cameron Dick and 8 months since their visit to Little

As a member of the Hospice Services Network Qld, Little Haven CEO Sue Manton spoke at the PCQ National Palliative Care Week Dinner on “What Matters Most“. The talk centred around Little Haven nurse Carolyn Mandasloot’s account of the long weekend, providing support for a wife and teenage son as they cared for their husband

This was PCQ’s first parliamentary information session and with 25 MPs attending, chatting and posing for photos. We were told 3 MPs attending these events is quite common, and 15 would be great … so 25 was extremely exciting.  A great way to start National Palliative Care Week. It was lovely to see local member Tony Perrett

Hosted by the SCHHS Specialist Palliative Care Services all community palliative care providers were invited to present a 5 minute overview of their services and brainstorming service direction needs. Little Haven has a deed of standing order with the SCHHS for provision of community palliative care services however despite the majority of referrals coming from

After consistent advocacy to our PHN (Central Qld Wide Bay Sunshine Coast) to work collaboratively with Little Haven to build capacity and sustainability of our service and seek input and clarity of  how funds will be allocated if the PHN is  successful in securing funding though the federally funded Greater Choices at Home Palliative Care

Little Haven joined with all other NGO Specialist Palliative Care Service Providers at a QHealth funded workshop to add further  input to the Palliative Policy Review. After years of rehashing this dialogue with QHealth it’s fair to say many in the room (members of the Hospice Services Network) felt a large degree of frustration at

All aspects of aged care, including palliative care and euthanasia, will be canvassed in a new Queensland government inquiry, the premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, has announced. What will this mean for the current palliative care policy review and Little Haven? We’ll have to wait until the Inquiry terms of reference are released, which is unlikely to happen

3 of the Little Haven “Family” spoke so beautifully at the Ignite Talk “Dying to Know” event held on the Sunshine Coast last night. Presentations were short, fast-paced talks to help grow the capacity of individuals and community groups to take action toward end of life planning. Nurses Carolyn Mandersloot, Amy Cadd and Carolyn’s daughter Indiana

Committee President, Brandy Murley, Carers Advocate, Ray Currie, Clinical Coordinator, Bronwyn McFarlane and Business Manager Sue Manton left disheartened following the 2nd visit to Little Haven from the Queensland Department of Health. Hoping for an announcement of our funding review, as previously promised, the visit instead was merely to seek ideas and further input to

As part of the PHN Greater Choices at home program funding project officer Jo Pennell established an inter-agency steering committee to ensure local palliative care activities align with state and national end-of-life/palliative care strategies and standards. The committee with representatives from all palliative care providers in the region met for the first time and will continue

Little Haven was represented at the Good Life Good Death Expos held in Brisbane in December and Townsville on June 29th / 30th on “A Good Death is Not an Oxymoron“. Little Haven and our model of care are now well known in regional Qld and currently we are helping/advocating where possible for the Coen

Very exciting day. The Final Report of the Productivity Commissions Human Services Review was publicly released today. The Commission’s number 1 Recommendation for reforms to End-Of-Life Care is the roll out of Community Based Palliative Care across every jurisdiction in Australia. Download the full End-Of-Life Inquiry report and recommendations here. There are 2 formats, PDF

Local  Member Tony Perrett rose in State Parliament today and spoke, calling for funding certainty from the Labor Government to match community needs.  We thank him for his ongoing advocacy on our behalf. Click the image below to read  MP Perrett’s Media Release Click Here to read the speech

Local Federal MP Llew O’Brien ahead of their meeting with The PHN brought newly elected Nationals Deputy Leader and Cabinet Minister for Sport, Rural Health and Regional Communications, Bridget Mckenzie, to the Little Haven centre to meet the team, tour the facility and discuss funding.

Little Haven’s Business Manager Sue Manton has served on the Board of Palliative Care Queensland since 2014. At this years AGM she was elected as Secretary of the states Peak Palliative Care body. This is important as Sue has made it clear since joining that her priority with the State Council is the recognition, equitable

Today we appreciated a visit at Little Haven from Local MP Tony Perrett and Qld Shadow Minister for Health John-Paul Langbroek. The Little Haven board is committed to advocating to all political parties for recognition of our demonstrated outstanding model of Community Based Palliative Care and for Government to fund it equitably and sustainably. We

Very pleased to see the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association (AMAQ) joining our call to all political parties for proper funding for Palliative Care in their 5 point Election manifesto, as reported in the Gympie Times Home care ‘time bomb’ warning – MDs join funds campaign 23rd November 2017. AMA Queensland president Dr Bill

After first floating the idea in November 2016 with Palliative Care QLD today we held the Inaugural meeting of the Hospice Services Network Qld held in Brisbane. Representatives from Little Haven, Cittimani, Karuna, Ipswich Hospice, Toowoomba Hospice, Hopewell Hospice and Hummingbird House attended. This meeting facilitated by Palliative Care Qld is an important milestone, because

Red Letter Day! Finally in Maryborough, Sue Manton LHPC Business Manager was sitting in a room face to face with Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick, QHealth Deputy Director General of Health Nick Steele and Scott Lisle, Acting Executive Director SC Hospital and Health Service. “Unlike every other meeting with Qld Health I left with a

We submitted a detailed submission to present at Palliative Care Australia’s national ‘Connection with Communities‘ conference that was held in Adelaide over the 6th to 8th of September 2017. Once again Little Haven’s successful and working model of Community Based Palliative Care was not something that our Peak Body was interested in having presented at

In response to the letter received from Queensland Health Minister on the 23rd August 2018 LHPC Business manager Sue Manton submitted a detailed requested to meet with the Minister and/or the Premier in Maryborough whilst they were there for the upcoming Community Cabinet.