Palliative Care for Primary Care

• Brisbane North HealthPathways
• Remuneration for health professional palliative care activities (including MBS items for GPs and NPs)
• Caresearch Palliative Care Guides for GPs

Documents

• Queensland Health Comparison table: advance care planning documents
• Statement of Choices (both form A & form B)
• Advance Health Directive
• Acute Resuscitation Plan
• Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA)

Access to ACP documents

• Video: ACPTracker via Health Provider Portal
• Register for access to the Health Provider Portal Access

More information

• Queensland Health Advance Care Planning Clinical Guidelines
• State-wide Office of ACP- information for GPs
• ACP Australia

Priority Populations

• Talking End of Life with people with intellectual disability (TEL)
• ACP resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• ACP resources for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse populations

Community

• Metro North HHS
• Karuna Hospice Services
• St Vincents Hospital
• Hummingbird House (hospice and at home)

In-patient

• Metro North HHS
• St Vincents
• Wesley Hospital
• Childrens Health Queensland

Common medications, community access and support

• palliMEDs app
• palliPHARM- Core Palliative Care Medicines for Queensland Community Patients
• PalliPHARM

Professional support and advice

• PalConsult

Projects

• Caring@Home
• Brisbane North PHN Palliative care in Community Pharmacy Action Plan

• HealthPathways https://brisbanenorth.communityhealthpathways.org/
• Palliative & End of Life Care in the RACGP Silver Book
• Community-based Palliative Care Anticipatory Medicines: Guidance for Queensland
• Guidelines for the handling of palliative care medicines in community services
• Palliative Care Therapeutic Guidelines
• Sad News Sorry Business: Guidelines for caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through death and dying
• End-of-life care: Guidelines for decision-making about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining measures from adult patients
• A Practical Guide to Palliative Care in Paediatrics (the green book)
• National Palliative Care Standards for All Health Professionals and Aged Care Services

Advice and support

• PalConsult

Further Information

• Caresearch
• Paediatric Palliative Care

Groups

• Brisbane North Community Palliative Care Collaborative
• State-wide Palliative Care Clinical Network

CPD

• Find education events:
  • Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education (CPCRE)
  • Palliative Care Queensland
  • Brisbane North PHN
• Palliative Care Education Directory (PaCE)
• For GPs
  • Palliative Care ECHO
  • Gwandalan
  • End of Life Law for Clinicians
  • PEPA
  • The Advance Project
  • palliPHARM
  • ACP from State-wide office of ACP
  • CPCRE Education Videos
  • PCC4U Health Professional CPD
  • ELDAC primary care toolkit
  • PCQ PalliLEARN
• For Nurse Practitioners
  • Palliative Care ECHO
  • Gwandalan
  • End of Life Law for Clinicians
  • PEPA
  • The Advance Project
  • palliPHARM
  • ACP from State-wide office of ACP
  • CPCRE Education Videos
  • PCC4U Health Professional CPD
  • ELDAC primary care toolkit
  • PCQ PalliLEARN
• For Practice Nurses
  • Palliative Care ECHO
  • AHHA online modules
  • Gwandalan
  • ELDAC
  • End of Life Law for Clinicians
  • PEPA
  • The Advance Project
  • ACP from State-wide office of ACP
  • PCC4U Health Professional CPD
  • PCQ PalliLEARN
• For Allied Health
  • Palliative Care ECHO
  • AHHA online modules
  • End of Life Law for Clinicians
  • Gwandalan
  • PEPA
  • ACP from State-wide office of ACP
  • PCC4U Health Professional CPD
  • PCQ PalliLEARN
• For Personal Care Workers
  • PCQ PalliLEARN
  • AHHA online modules
  • ELDAC
  • Gwandalan
  • PEPA
    • Disability Care Worker Learning Guide
• For Admin Staff
  • PCQ PalliLEARN
  • AHHA online modules
    

About specific Patient Groups

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  • PCC4U Focus Topic 2: Caring for Australian Indigenous People affected by life-limiting illness
  • Gwandalan
  • ELDAC- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
  • Sad News Sorry Business: Guidelines for caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through death and dying
• LGBTQIA+
  • LGBTIQ+ palliative care project
• Paediatric
  • PCC4U Focus Topic: Caring for Children affected by life-limiting illness
  • Paediatic Palliative Care Project education for health professionals
• Disability
  • Talking end of life with people with intellectual disability

Benchmarking and evaluation

• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaborative (PCOC) in Primary Care
• Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program (PACOP)

• palliMEDs (for primary care prescribers)
• Caring@Home (for carers and health professionals)
• palliAGEDgp (for GPs)
• palliAGEDnurse (for Nurses)
• ELDAC Home Care (for care workers)
• Healthy End of Life Program (HELP)

Under 65 (or under 50 years old for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people)

• Private/self funding
• NDIS
• Queensland Community Support Scheme (QCSS)

Over 65

• My Aged Care
• Private/self funding

• MASS Palliative Care Equipment Program (MASS-PCEP)
• Private funded

• PalAssist
• CareSearch
• Caring@home
• Ambulance wish QLD
• PCQ PalliLEARN
• Palliative Care Resources for People in Queensland
• PCQ National Palliative Care Services Directory