Online resource of palliative care information and evidence

• Close the Gap
• Let’s yarn about palliative care: Going home to country
• Palliative care eases pain and distress
• Wanem morphine

• New South Wales – Planning Ahead
• Planning at the end of life
• Respecting Patient Choices
• Victoria - A guide to decision-making in healthcare
• Western Australia – Consent: Living wills

• Aged and Community Services Australia
• Aged Care Association Australia
• Aged Care Australia
• Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency
• National Ageing Research Institute

• Carers and palliative care
• Carers Australia
• Centrelink
• Living Caring Working
• Working Carers Gateway

• Cancer Council Victoria – Complementary and alternative treatments
• HealthInsite
• National Prescribing Service

• The process of dying
• What can I say, What can I do? When someone I know is living with a terminal condition
• What to do when someone dies

• CareSearch – education page
• Palliative Care Australia teaching resources
• Self directed learning package: Guidelines for a palliative approach in residential aged care

• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing – palliative care
• ACT Health
• New South Wales Health
• Northern Territory - Department of Health and Families
• Queensland Health
• South Australia – Department of Health
• Tasmania - Department of Health and Human Services
• Victoria – Department of Health
• Western Australia - Department of Health

• Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
• The Compassionate Friends (Australia)
• National Association for Loss and Grief
• National Centre for Childhood Grief
• Now what? Understanding grief

• CareSearch – health professionals information pages
• Clinical practice guidelines for communicating prognosis and end-of-life issues with adults in the advanced stages of a life-limiting illness, and their caregivers
• Frequently asked questions about palliative care
• IAHPC list of essential medicines for palliative care
• MJA Supplement – Palliative care: A new dimension in healthcare
• Palliative medicine handbook – online
• Pallipedia – online palliative care dictionary
• Therapeutic Guidelines – Version 3 – Palliative care

• Alzheimer’s Australia
• Cancer Council Australia
• Motor Neurone Disease Australia

• Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network
• European Association for Palliative Care
• Hospice New Zealand
• International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
• International Observatory on End of Life Care
• World Health Organization – palliative care
• Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance

• Facts about morphine and other opioid medicines in palliative care
• National Prescribing Service

• Cancer Council of Victoria – cancer resources
• Palliative Care Australia multilingual resources

• Local Palliative Care Grants Program
• National Palliative Care Program
• National Palliative Care Strategy
• National Standards Assessment Program
• Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative
• Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U)
• Palliative Care Knowledge Network - CareSearch
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC)
• Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA)
• Respecting Patient Choices
• Rural Palliative Care Project
• CEBPARAC

• Journeys: Palliative Care for Children and Teenagers
• Make-a-wish foundation
• New South Wales – Bear Cottage
• Starlight Foundation
• Victoria – Very Special Kids
• Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program
• What is paediatric palliative care?

• Frequently asked questions about palliative care
• Queensland – Palliative care information service
• Questions to ask your doctor
• Understanding the healthcare system
• What is palliative care?

• Australian Pain Society
• Pain and symptom management

• Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine
• Clinical Oncological Society of Australia
• Palliative Care Nurses Australia

• Centre for palliative care education and research
• Centre for palliative care research and education

• Australian Council on Healthcare Standards
• Quality Improvement Council
• Standards for providing quality palliative care for all Australians

• The Compassionate Friends (Australia)
• Kids Helpline

• PCA position statement – Voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide