Early Integration of Palliative Care Across Specialties & Settings

Lien Foundation works closely with public hospitals, national specialty centres and leading social service agencies. Guiding this work is our belief that the majority of people who can benefit from palliative care are not dying. Palliative care should be every healthcare professional’s duty, grounded in the need to reduce patient suffering. By integrating across medical specialties and community care, more patients and families can receive generalist palliative care.

Integrating Palliative Care into medical specialties:

• Cardiology (Heart failure) —  Heartlanders (NHCS)
• Neurology —  NeuroPal (NNI, TTSH, SingHealth, Assisi, Dover Park)
• Nephrology (Kidney failure)  —  Renalssance (TTSH, SGH, NUH, NKF)
• Paediatrics — Cocoon (KKH)
• Paediatrics — Alexandra Hospital
• Surgery & Cancer Care – Oncordance (NCCS/SGH + rehab partners)
• Critical Care (ICU) — A Kinder ICU (TTSH, NUH)
• Intellectually Disabled Healthcare — HealtherID (IDHealth)
• Primary Care — Primary Palliative Care Clinic (St Luke’s Hospital)
• Emergency Medicine — AlignED (NUH, KTPH, SGH)

Integrating Palliative Care into eldercare:

• Active Aging Centres — Cloud Nine (Fei Yue Community Services)
• Active Aging Centres — Blossom Seeds Care (Blossom Seeds)
• After Dementia Day Care — Post Diagnostic Support Plus (DementiaSG)

Lien Centre for Palliative Care at Duke NUS plays a key role for  research & education on many of these programmes, while our international initiatives include Lien Collaborative for Palliative Care  and Cynthia Goh Fellowship with APHN, as well as Lien Collaborative (Beijing) with TTSH.