Brisbane North PHN is hosting an evening of palliative care education and networking.
Returning for its fourth year, this event aims to increase the primary care workforce awareness of available palliative care services and supports. Kindly share this event with your networks.
Details
Event Palliative Care Evening 2026
Date Tuesday 28 April 2026
Time 5.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Venue Kedron-Wavell, 21 Kittyhawk Drive, Chermside
Cost No cost to attend
Register https://www.trybooking.com/DJDJJ
(registrations close 19 April)
Download the flyer
Further information:
For more information, please contact the Brisbane North PHN Healthy Ageing Team at
community.care@brisbanenorthphn.org.au or phone 07 3630 7300.
[From CarerHelp]
CarerHelp are offering free online sessions for families caring for someone nearing the end of life. Led by experienced health professionals, these sessions cover a range of topics and are designed to meet carers where they are on their journey. Carers can find out more and self-register here.
Upcoming dates include:
Preparing for caring as illness advances
- Feb 10th 11am
- Mar 10th 11am
Preparing for the last weeks
- Feb 10th 1pm
- Mar 10th 1pm
Living beyond loss: Finding your way through grief
- Feb 24th 2pm
- Mar 24th 2pm
[From PCA]
Join us for our monthly deep dive into the National Palliative Care Standards, where we explore one standard in detail and discuss ways to embed it into everyday practice. This month, we focus on Standard Eight: Quality Improvement, encouraging services to engage in continuous improvement and research to enhance care. Our expert panel, Dr Claudia Virdun, Toni Arndell and Donna O’Brien, will reflect on their experiences, share insights and discuss how the Standard can be integrated into day-to-day practice.
The National Palliative Care Standards for Specialist Services (Edition 5.1, 2024) set a vision for compassionate, high-quality palliative care. Complementing these, the National Palliative Care Standards for All Health Professionals and Aged Care Services (2022) acknowledge that palliative care occurs across diverse settings. The Palliative Care Self-Assessment (PaCSA) supports services in self-assessing against both sets of standards and developing action plans for continuous quality improvement.
REGISTER HERE
Make the most of this session by downloading the National Palliative Care Standards and PaCSA before the webinar 👉 https://palliativecare.org.au/national-palliative-care-standards/
What we’ll cover in the webinar:
The intention of Standard Eight: Quality Improvement.
Panel discussion around the elements of the standard.
Questions from the audience.
Whether you work in a specialist or non-specialist palliative care service, the CoP and monthly webinars have been designed to support you in providing high-quality palliative care.
Haven’t joined the CoP yet?
Complete the Expression of Interest Form
[From ACPA]
It’s nearly time, National Advance Care Planning Week is returning from 16–22 March 2026.
This year’s theme, Your story, your choice, recognises that every person’s values, experiences and wishes are different. Advance care planning is about taking the time to reflect, start conversations and make plans for the future care that feels right for you.
As part of the national campaign, we’re sharing powerful real-life stories from people across Australia, highlighting why planning ahead matters and how advance care planning can give clarity, confidence and peace of mind.
We invite you to help spread the word by promoting Advance Care Planning Week across your organisation and community networks. A range of ready-to-use campaign resources is available to support you to raise awareness and spark meaningful conversations.
There are lots of ways to take part this Advance Care Planning Week:
Not planning to host an activity this year? You can still play an important role in raising awareness of advance care planning:
- Download and share campaign resources
- Use the Key messaging guide, which includes ready-made newsletter content and social media posts.
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Initiate or encourage conversations with patients, clients, residents and families about future health care choices.
Every conversation counts, thank you for helping Australians reflect on what matters most.
Questions or need support? Contact us at comms@advancecareplanning.org.au
[From ELDAC]
Many aged care services collect data, but translating it into action can be a challenge.
Register for this ELDAC webinar to see how digital data can better support end-of-life care Discover the new ELDAC Dashboard BI Model at its official launch.
Date: Tuesday 17 February 2026
Time: 10am-11am (ACDT)
[Brisbane North PHN event]
The purpose of this workshop is to identify needs, generate potential solutions, and prioritize them through cross-sector stakeholder collaboration. These findings will inform an action plan to be implemented through to 2029.
The workshop is part of a project aiming to improve at-home palliative care access for people with disability in North Brisbane and Moreton Bay by enhancing workforce knowledge, skills, and confidence.
Event: Workforce support for at home palliative care access for people with disability: Action planning workshop
Date: Wednesday 25 March 2026
Time: 9.00 am to 1.00 pm (morning tea and lunch provided)
Venue: Sky lounge at Kedron-Wavell (21 Kittyhawk Drive, Chermside)
Cost: Free
Registration: https://www.trybooking.com/DIYJM
Registration is essential and closes 17 March.
You are welcome to share this invitation with other in your organisation who may be interested.
The Department of Health Disability and Ageing have opened up two grant opportunities in palliative care:
In September 2025, The Queensland Clinical Senate hosted more than 130 clinicians, consumers and healthcare leaders in person and 95 online to explore how we can better care for patients in their last 1000 days.
The 8 Recommendations and meeting summary notes are now available:
The Senate’s 8 recommendations to Queensland Health
1. Build on current educational resources to provide a statewide program to upskill the workforce in the principles of dignity of risk and end of life conversations in the last 1000 days, tailored for the Queensland context.
2. Advocate for revision of Queensland State legislation to promote national consistency in laws governing end of life care and decision making with emphasis on withdrawal of treatment.
3. Launch a statewide public awareness campaign to promote Advance Care Planning with a focus on the last 1000 days and work with community partners to increase uptake.
4. Support clinicians to enable people to die with dignity by championing early conversations about care in the last 1000 days, avoiding interventions with low benefit and aligning care with what matters most to the person.
5. Enhance rural-regional-metro partnerships through integrated networked service models including expanded specialist outreach and in-reach services to rural and remote areas.
6. Establish a Home‑Based Care Model for the last 1000 days that prioritises safe, culturally responsive care at home by linking regionally based virtual care hubs to virtual wards, rapid equipment loan and supply hubs, carer coaching/support resources, supported by statewide iEMR, telehealth, electronic prescribing and shared digital records, and with clear escalation pathways and a statewide clinical support hotline.
7. Establish multidisciplinary decision support teams in each Hospital and Health Service with access to networked statewide clinical ethics expertise supported by a clear governance framework to help clinicians navigate complex end of life cases confidently and consistently.
8. Strengthen Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) services across Queensland to ensure consistent, equitable, and culturally responsive access, particularly in regional, rural, and remote communities.
The Australian Centre for Health Law Research invites you to join us for an engaging program of interdisciplinary research on assisted dying. This is an in-person event held at the QUT Gardens Point Campus in Brisbane, from 8-11 April 2026.
Register here
[from ICS Event Secretariat]
2026 NATIONAL CLOSING THE GAP INDIGENOUS HEALTH CONFERENCE
8-10 DECEMBER 2026
HILTON HOTEL GOLD COAST QLD
Submissions are now open for the 2026 National Indigenous Closing the Gap Health Conference, held 8–10 December 2026 at the Hilton Gold Coast. This major national gathering brings together Elders, community leaders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers, researchers, AMS and PHN staff, policymakers, frontline workers, and organisations committed to culturally grounded, community-led health systems.
Guided by the principle “prevention is better than cure,” the conference centres culture, self-determination, and Indigenous leadership at a time of significant reform across health, mental health, disability, and workforce development. It provides a vital space to share knowledge, honour lived experience and truth-telling, and co-design solutions that uphold dignity, choice, and control for First Nations communities.
We invite papers aligned to the conference themes:
- Our Leadership, Our Health – community-driven solutions and self-determination
- Truth, Culture, Healing – cultural integrity, healing, and holistic wellbeing
- Innovate Together, Transform Generations – partnerships and innovation for sustainable, culturally safe outcomes
Topics may include chronic disease prevention, mental health and trauma recovery, traditional and integrated healing, disability and NDIS, workforce and research capacity, social determinants of health, and innovative approaches to Indigenous health and wellbeing.
Presenters are encouraged to share lived experience, research, case studies, and community-led innovations that strengthen the independence, safety, and dignity of First Nations peoples.
For submission guidelines and registration details, please click the link and complete the Submit-A-Paper form online.
This conference is a shared movement for action, healing, and transformation. Walk with us as we shape a future where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples thrive in mind, body, and spirit.
2026
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