National palliative care projects providing education

The Australian Government funds a range of national palliative care projects primarily focused on education, training, quality improvement and advance care planning. They are listed below. Information on educational components included in these projects against the whole of workforce framework will be added as it is provided by the projects.

Advance Care Planning Australia

Designed for health professionals, care workers and the general public, this is an initiative of Austin Health supported by funding from the Australian Government. Advance Care Planning Australia is a national program that encourages people to consider their values, beliefs ...

Advance Care Planning Australia

Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA)

The palliative care online training and information portal is funded by the Department of Health and developed by AHHA together with input from industry and other specialists. The training assists people providing frontline palliative care to aged persons in the community ...

Palliative Care Training and Information Online Portal

CareSearch

CareSearch is a national program funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care through the National Palliative Care Program to provide online access to evidence and evidence-based guidance on palliative care. The My Learning modules aim to demonstrate how to find relevant evidence …

CareSearch

caring@home Project

caring@home is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care to support people to be cared for and to die at home, if that is their choice. The caring@home education modules for registered nurses will support community-based services …

caring@home

End-of-Life Essentials

The End-of-Life Essentials Project is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care to provide online education on health care at the end of life in acute hospitals for health professionals. The modules develop knowledge and skills to recognise end-of-life ...

End-of-Life Essentials

End of Life Law for Clinicians

Funded through the Australian government National Palliative Care Program, the End of Life Law for Clinicians course aims to address current gaps in clinicians’ knowledge of end of life law. Each training module takes ...

ELLC

Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U)

The PCC4U project is a national palliative care project funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. PCC4U promotes the inclusion of palliative care education as an integral part of all medical, nursing, and allied ...

PCC4U

Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC)

PCOC is a national palliative care project funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. PCOC enables palliative care services to embed standardised clinical assessment tools in to routine practice. PCOC captures clinically meaningful ...

PCOC

Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA)

The Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) forms part of the Palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. PEPA empowers health professionals to deliver quality end-of-life ...

PEPA

Quality of Care Collaborative Australia (QuoCCA)

The QuoCCA project activities have been made possible through funding from the Department of Health, Australia. The Quality of Care Collaborative Australia 2 (QuoCCA 2) continues the project work commenced in 2015-2017 to enhance the quality of paediatric palliative care ...

QuoCCA

Talking End of Life

TEL is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health under the Public Health and Chronic Disease Grant Program to provide teaching resources for disability support professionals. Death is a part of life. Too often death is a taboo in our society, and people avoid talking ...

The Advance Project

The Advance Project is a national program funded by the Australian Government Department of Health to support Australian general practices The Advance Project aims to enable better health care outcomes in Australian general practices through: enabling earlier consideration ...

The Advance Project

Last updated 13 August 2021