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The following forms, checklists and tools can assist you in providing palliative or end-of-life care within the acute care setting.
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Palliative care within the acute care setting
- National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care
- National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
- Delivering and Supporting Comprehensive End-of-life Care: A User Guide
- Palliative Care Outcomes Collaborative (PCOC)
- A National Position Statement on Adult End-of-Life Care in Critical Care
- ACCCN and ACIPC Position Statement on Facilitating Next-of-kin Presence for Patients Dying from COVID-19 in the ICU (2020) (631kb pdf)
- Position statement: Optimising Person and Family Centred End-of-life Care During a Pandemic (722kb pdf).
- Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing palliative care for children and young people.
- Rapid Review of the Literature on End-of-life Care (1.15MB pdf)
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Safety and Quality of End-of-life Care in Acute Hospitals, A Background Paper. (1.47 MB pdf).
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Planning for palliative care
- Clinical Services Capability Framework for Palliative Care (130kb pdf)
- Nurse-led Palliative Care Service in Australia: An Implementation toolkit (698kb pdf)
- NSW Renal Supportive Care Service Model (464kb pdf)
- Dementia Care in Hospitals Program
- PCOC Assessment and Response Protocol
- AMBER care bundle
- Decision-making and End-of Life-care in Emergency (DandELinE)
- Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program
- Western Australian Paediatric Palliative Care Service
- New South Wales state wide paediatric palliative care service
- COVID Geriatric Healthcare Organisation Model
- Framework for proactively mobilizing the palliative care workforce
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Recognising the need for palliative care
- End-of-life Essentials – Recognising Dying Module
- End-of-life Essentials – Recognising Dying Toolkit (467kb pdf)
- RUN-PC Tool
- SPEED
- The Surprise Question (367kb pdf)
- Supportive & Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) (571kb pdf)
- NAT:PD (128kb pf)
- Proactive Identification Guidance (PIG) – 7th edition
- Palliative Care Status Form
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Communication and shared decision-making
- REMAP framework
- Vital talks
- Prepared model (186kb pdf)
- Supporting Decision-making (2.02MB pdf)
- SPIKES (72kb pdf)
- Nurse mnemonic (106kb pdf)
- MVP (medical situation, values and plan)
- Advance Care Planning Australia conversation starters
- End-of-Life Essential – Communication and Decision-Making Toolkit (479kb pdf)
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in HealthCare
- End-of-life Essentials – Communication and Decision-Making Module
- Serious Illness Conversation Guide (589kb pdf)
- Open and respectful communication
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Responding to patient needs
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Teamwork
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Patient transitions and coordination of care
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Grief and bereavement
- Policy Statement Grief and bereavement
- Bereavement Support Standards for Specialist Palliative Care Services (225kb pdf)
- Medicare Mental Health
- Beyond Blue
- DRS4DRS
- Nurse & Midwife Support
- Willed have a complete guide to grief counselling and bereavement services
- The Grief Australia Grief Information Sheets
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Education
- End-of-life Essentials
- End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC)
- Advance Care Planning Australia
- Indigenous Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (IPEPA)
- Palliative Care Curriculum for undergraduates (PCC4U)
- Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA)
- Final medicines in palliative care
- Vital Talks (communication)
- End-of-life and palliative care education pathways in ACT (188kb pdf)
- Education and training in palliative care (Victoria)
- Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education (CPCRE) Calendar (Queensland)
- Palliative care education and training (Tasmania)
- End of life care resources (South Australia)
- Health education and training (New South Wales)
- End-of-life and Palliative Care Education and Training Framework (Western Australia)
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Last updated 29 June 2026