CPCRE - Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education
Acknowledgement of Country: CPCRE and PEPA respectfully acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbul peoples, traditional custodians of the lands where CPCRE and PEPA Queensland are located. We acknowledge elders past, present and emerging and their continuing spiritual relationship with the land.
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- NACCHO Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce: Building a workforce and embedding Cultural Safety
- Supporting children and young people to manage the impact of death. 21 Oct 2019
- National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Aged Care
- PCA Position Statement (Sep 2019) on Voluntary Assisted Dying and Palliative Care
- Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia: Guiding principles for those providing care to people with a life-limiting illness
- PCA statement: Sustainable access to opioids for use in palliative care
- National Palliative Care Strategy 2018 (Feb 2019)
- National Palliative Care Standards
- Palliative Care Service Development Guidelines
- National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards Guide for Hospitals
- ELDAC toolkits - aged care, palliative care and advance care planning
- Pain in Residential Aged Care Facilities 2018 (Aust Pain Society)
- Queensland Statewide Strategy for End of Life Care (2015)
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Who We Are
The Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education (CPCRE) was established by Queensland Health in 2001 to enhance palliative care services in Queensland through education and research. Palliative care is an approach that improves quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life threatening illness, through prevention of suffering by early identification, and impeccable assessment and treatment of, pain and other problems, physical, psychological and spiritual, allowing people a dignified death.
What we do
CPCRE works collaboratively with many other palliative care organisations, including:
Our work focuses on:
- Developing capacity of the palliative care workforce to provide quality palliative care
- Improving links between research and practice in palliative care
- Undertaking research to enhance the quality of palliative care
- Providing information which supports delivery of palliative care services
