To ensure the provision of high quality palliative care, it is important that services be able to determine and measure the impact of their service delivery, and the outcomes they offer people with a life-limiting illness, their families and carers.

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is the only voluntary quality programme utilising standardised validated clinical assessment tools to benchmark and measure outcomes in palliative care.  Participation in PCOC enables palliative care service providers to improve practice and meet the Standards for Providing Quality Palliative Care for all Australians. 

PCOC is funded to June 2013 under the National Palliative Care Program and supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Health and Ageing and is managed by a collaboration of four universities led by the University of Wollongong's Australian Health Services Research Institute. 

Last updated on 27 September 2011