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.
Latest releases
- 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.
- 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 – 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 – community, residential aged care and inpatient.
- 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.
caring@home Community Palliative Care Resources Box
PallConsult partners with caring@home to produce free caring@home Community Palliative Care Resources Box to support the provision of best-practice palliative care in Queensland. Order a box online.
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 online education modules | Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning – assists with the correct completion and lodgement of Queensland advance care planning documents
- Professional resource hub | Advance Care Planning Australia
- Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning | Queensland Health – information and support for patients, families, carers, and health professionals
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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
- Community Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Order (over 24 hours) (PDF)
- Care Plan for the Dying Person (CPDP): Supporting care in the last days and hours of life (PDF) | Queensland Health
- Managing a home death: What to do when a person dies at home (PDF)
- Example expected death letter (PDF) – example only, please email pallconsult@health.qld.gov.au for official copy
- Life extinct form (PDF) (QH login required) – for staff external to Queensland Health, please email pallconsult@health.qld.gov.au for access
- MASS Palliative Care Equipment Program (MASS PCEP) | Queensland Health
- NIKI Syringe Pump Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Chart (PDF)
- Rapid Transfer Home for Terminal Care Checklist (PDF)
- Residential Aged Care End of Life Care Pathway (RAC EoLCP) | Queensland Health
- Resuscitation resources for health professionals | Queensland Health
- Specialist Palliative Rural Telehealth Service | Queensland Health
- Terminal care planning checklist for nurses in the community | caring@home
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- Community-based Palliative Care Anticipatory Medicines: Guidance for Queensland (PDF)
- Community-based Palliative Care Anticipatory Medicines: Guidance for Queensland (Video) – a short webinar video to assist clinicians to navigate the guidance document
- Guiding principles for medication management in residential aged care facilities | Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
- Guide to the Pharmacological Management of End of Life (Terminal) Symptoms in Residential Aged Care Residents: A Resource for General Practitioners (PDF) | Queensland Health
- How to insert a subcutaneous cannula | caring@home
- National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List | caring@home
- Opioid Rotation Conversion Learning Package (PDF) | Metro South Palliative Care Service
- palliMEDS app | caring@home – 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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- What is paediatric palliative care? (Video) | Quality of Care Collaborative Australia
- Communication with children in paediatric palliative care (Video) | Quality of Care Collaborative Australia
- Education resources | Quality of Care Collaborative Australia
Resources for First Nations families
These videos are password protected. The password is kambiman.
- For health professionals (Video) | Kam Biman Project | Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education
- For patients and families (Video) | Kam Biman Project | Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education
Advance care planning for children and young people
- Information and advance care planning forms for children, young people and families | Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning
- Children’s Health Queensland Paediatric Palliative Care Service
Phone: 07 3068 4699
Email: ppcs@health.qld.gov.au - Paediatric Advance Care Planning (Video) | Quality of Care Collaborative Australia
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- Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Support Service – information and resources for health professionals and consumers about voluntary assisted dying in Queensland