PallConsult resources
PallConsult engages in a number of projects and offers external resources to improve the ability of local healthcare teams around Queensland to deliver palliative care services.
You can book an education session if you are a health professional.
New Surefuser+ resources
New Surefuser™+ subcutaneous medication infusion forms are now available to support clinicians to deliver safe and effective palliative care.
Latest releases
- Care Plan for the Dying Person – a clinical tool for Queensland Health clinicians to support care in the last days and hours of life, including a Comfort Observation and Symptom Assessment (COSA) chart, quick reference guides and fact sheets. A new education package explains recent changes to the Care Plan for the Dying Person for ieMR enabled and non-ieMR enabled sites.
- CADD-SOLIS and CADD-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps – a learning package developed for health professionals on how to safely set up, commence and provide necessary documentation for the CADD-SOLIS and CADD-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps for use in palliative care clinical settings including community, residential aged care and inpatient.
- NIKI T34, T34 and BodyGuard T syringe pump – a learning package developed for health professionals on how to safely set up, commence and provide necessary documentation for the NIKI T34, T34 and BodyGuard T syringe pump for use in palliative care clinical settings including community, residential aged care and inpatient.
- Rapid Transfer Home for Terminal Care Checklist – a planning document that can be used by hospital-based clinicians to safely support adult patients and their families/carers who choose to transfer home (private residence or residential aged care home for end-of-life and terminal care.
- Surefuser infusion device – a learning package developed for health professionals to learn how to set up, commence and monitor a Surefuser infusion device for use in the palliative care setting.
Palliative care resources
The following documents and links are available to help support best-practice palliative and end-of-life care in Queensland.
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- Advance Care Planning Australia
- Advance care planning online education modules
- Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning – information and support for patients, families, carers, and health professionals
- The Queensland Health advance care planning clinical guidelines (PDF 2868 kB) are now available to support all health facilities with the implementation of the advance care planning process.
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End-of-Life Essentials – free education modules designed to assist doctors, nurses and allied health professionals working in acute hospitals in delivering end-of-life care
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- caring@home – resources for health professionals, carers and families of people who choose to be cared for, and die at home, if possible
- Care Plan for the Dying Person (CPDP): Supporting care in the last days and hours of life (PDF 1426 kB)
- Example expected death letter (PDF 723 kB) – example only, please email pallconsult@health.qld.gov.au for official copy
- Life extinct form (PDF, 282 kB) – Queensland Health login required. For external access, please email pallconsult@health.qld.gov.au
- Managing a home death: What to do when a person dies at home (PDF 82 kB)
- MASS Palliative Care Equipment Program (MASS PCEP)
- Rapid Transfer Home for Terminal Care Checklist (PDF 857 kB)
- Residential Aged Care End of Life Care Pathway (RAC EoLCP)
- Resuscitation resources for health professionals
- Specialist Palliative Rural Telehealth Service
- Terminal care planning checklist for nurses in the community
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- Community-based Palliative Care Anticipatory Medicines: Guidance for Queensland (PDF 864 kB) (a short video is available to assist clinicians in navigating this document).
- Guiding principles for medication management in residential aged care facilities
- Guide to the Pharmacological Management of End of Life (Terminal) Symptoms in Residential Aged Care Residents: A Resource for General Practitioners (PDF, 261 kB)
- How to insert a subcutaneous cannula
- National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List
- Opioid Rotation Conversion Learning Package (PDF 535 kB)
- palliMEDS app – 2026 version now available. The essential app for primary care prescribers supporting palliative care patients, now featuring paediatric palliative medicine prescribing information and a weight-based dose calculator
- Quality Use of Community Palliative Care Medicines Project – improving safe, timely and coordinated access to palliative care medicines across Australia
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- Community HealthPathways – GPs providing palliative care for community-based COVID-19 patients (login required)
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- What is paediatric palliative care? (Video)
- Communication with children in paediatric palliative care (Video)
- Education and training resources by the Quality of Care Collaborative Australia
Resources for First Nations families by the Kam Biman Project
These videos are password protected. The password is kambiman.
Advance care planning for children and young people
- Information and advance care planning forms for children, young people and families
- Children’s Health Queensland Paediatric Palliative Care Service
Phone: 07 3068 4699
Email: ppcs@health.qld.gov.au - Paediatric Advance Care Planning (Video)
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- Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Support Service – information and resources for health professionals and consumers about voluntary assisted dying in Queensland