Palliative Care for Primary Care
Welcome to the online delegate pack.
To the right (or below on a mobile), you will find documents to support the Palliative Care Evening. Recordings of presentations will be available shortly after the event.
In the resource section directly below, you will find links to additional resources on:
- Quick Start Palliative Care (essential links to get you started now)
- Advance Care Planning
- Specialist palliative care services
- Medication management
- Practice guidelines
- Supports for health professionals
- Palliative care apps
- Funding for community supports
- Equipment at home
- Supports for patients
- Supports for carers
- Residential aged care
- Projects supporting priority populations
- Grief and bereavement
- Voluntary assisted dying
Please give us your feedback via the hardcopy or online anonymous survey. Your feedback will support future activities and events.
Welcome to the online delegate pack.
To the right (or below on a mobile), you will find documents to support the Palliative Care Evening. Recordings of presentations will be available shortly after the event.
In the resource section directly below, you will find links to additional resources on:
- Quick Start Palliative Care (essential links to get you started now)
- Advance Care Planning
- Specialist palliative care services
- Medication management
- Practice guidelines
- Supports for health professionals
- Palliative care apps
- Funding for community supports
- Equipment at home
- Supports for patients
- Supports for carers
- Residential aged care
- Projects supporting priority populations
- Grief and bereavement
- Voluntary assisted dying
Please give us your feedback via the hardcopy or online anonymous survey. Your feedback will support future activities and events.
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Quick Start Palliative care
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Advance Care Planning
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
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Specialist Palliative Care Services
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Medication Management
Common medications, community access and support
- palliMEDs app
- palliPHARM- Core Palliative Care Medicines for Queensland Community Patients
- PalliPHARM
Professional support and advice
Projects
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Practice Guidelines
- 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
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Supports for Healthcare Professionals
Advice and support
Further Information
Groups
CPD
- Find education events:
- Palliative Care Education Directory (PaCE)
- For GPs
- For Nurse Practitioners
- For Practice Nurses
- For Allied Health
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For Personal Care Workers
- PCQ PalliLEARN
- AHHA online modules
- ELDAC
- Gwandalan
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PEPA
- Disability Care Worker Learning Guide
- For Admin Staff
About specific Patient Groups
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- LGBTQIA+
- Paediatric
- Disability
Benchmarking and evaluation
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Palliative Care Apps
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Funding for community supports
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
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Equipment at Home
- MASS Palliative Care Equipment Program (MASS-PCEP)
- Private funded
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Supports for Patients
Program & Speakers
Presentations
- Voluntary assisted dying and palliative care: Prof Liz Reymond
- Supporting palliative care for residents in aged care: the SPACE model by Dr W Lukin and Nicole Hutchinson (159 KB) (pdf)
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Working together in palliative care (Dr Sue Colen & Dr Simon Murray)
- Presentation: Working together in palliative care by Dr Sue Colen and Dr Simon Murray (1.21 MB) (pdf)
- Video in presentation: Palliative Care PSA
- Adult specialist palliative care services in the Brisbane North PHN region (172 KB) (pdf)
- PBS Palliative Care Schedule (461 KB) (pdf)
- Article: Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter by Chochinov (2023)
Exhibitors
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Brisbane North PHN
- Primary Sense benefits (253 KB) (pdf)
- Primary Sense components (278 KB) (pdf)
- Primary Sense brochure (250 KB) (pdf)
- GP Workforce Planning and Prioritisation program factsheet (384 KB) (pdf)
- GP Workforce Planning and Prioritisation program FAQs (441 KB) (pdf)
- GP Workforce Planning Consultation Survey: Practice/Facility
- GP Workforce Planning Consultation Survey: General Practitioner
- HealthPathways Flyer (185 KB) (pdf)
- HealthPathways Website
- Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education (CPCRE)
- ELDAC (End of Life Directions in Aged Care)
- Hummingbird House
- Karuna Hospice Services
- Metro North Palliative Care Services
- Metro North VAD Support Service
- PalAssist
- PallConsult
- Palliative Care Queensland (PCQ)
- PEPA (Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach)
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Quality of Care Collaborative Australia (QuoCCA)
- Journal Article: Ongoing Value and Practice Improvement Outcomes from Pediatric Palliative Care Education: The Quality of Care Collaborative Australia (Slater et.al. 2021) (357 KB) (pdf)
- Want to know more about Paediatric Palliative Care flyer (172 KB) (pdf)
- Quality of Care Collaborative Australia (QuoCCA) website
- Queensland Palliative Care Clinical Network
- UQ Palliative Care ECHO
- State-wide Office of Advance Care Planning
- St Vincent's Private Hospital