Voluntary Assisted Dying Navigator service

Regional VAD Care Navigator (Loddon Mallee)

Phone: 0459 261 204

Email: vad@bendigohealth.org.au

Voluntary assisted dying care navigators (care navigators) are nurses and allied health professionals who help a person seeking voluntary assisted dying, as well as their carers, family, friends, their usual healthcare providers and health service when needed. They can:

• explain what voluntary assisted dying is.
• explain how to access voluntary assisted dying.
• find doctors who can assess a person for eligibility to access voluntary assisted dying.
• help to ensure a person can access the support they may need regarding voluntary assisted dying.
• provide information and support to carers, families, friends (support people) and healthcare providers.

They may assist with identifying appropriate service referral pathways and connecting people to health practitioners and services that best meet their specific needs and goals of care.

Care navigators provide education to health services and health practitioners on voluntary assisted dying. They can also run medical practitioner training days for health services.

More information about Voluntary Assisted Dying: here