Palliative care resources for you to download and print
The following resource packs have been developed to support health professionals with palliative care practice and training. Complete packs can be downloaded or ordered for free. Single items can be downloaded and printed as needed.
Acute care resource pack
Forms for case conferences
- About the case conference package (97kb pdf)
- Using the palliAGED conference forms (39kb pdf)
- Case conference checklist: Support at home (422kb pdf)
- Case conference checklist: Residential care (404kb pdf)
- Invitation: Palliative care case conference (191kb pdf)
- GP confirmation: Palliative care case conference (193kb pdf)
- Information for you and your family – What is palliative care and why do you need a case conference (161kb pdf)
- Invitation for you and your family (198kb pdf)
- Confirmation for you and your family (140kb pdf)
- Staff communication sheet (149kb pdf)
- Palliative care case conference summary: Support at home (516kb pdf)
- Palliative care case conference summary: Residential care (225kb pdf)
If you need forms with larger text fields for printing please use the following word documents:
Nurses resource pack
- About the nurses package (159kb pdf)
- Helping nurses provide care (69kb pdf)
- SPICT (571kb pdf)
- SPICT-4ALL (571kb pdf)
- Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease (NAT:PD) (99kb pdf)
- Communication with patients, carers, and families (124kb pdf)
- Abbey Pain Scale (240kb pdf)
- Needs Assessment Tool for Carers of People with a Chronic Condition (NAT-CC) (343kb pdf)
- Medicines from the PBS Prescriber bag for terminal phase symptoms (96kb pdf)
- Nurses Responding to grief, bereavement and loss (121kb pdf)
- Self-care plan for health professionals (169kb pdf)
- MBS items supporting nurse practitioner palliative care provision (171kb pdf)
Primary Health Care resource pack
- About the primary care package (271kb pdf)
- CareSearch for primary health care (93kb pdf)
- Communication starters (159kb pdf): Checklist for initiating difficult conversations
- SPICT (571kb pdf)
- SPICT-4ALL (571kb pdf)
- Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease (NAT:PD) (99kb pdf)
- Needs Assessment Tool for Carers of People with a Chronic Condition (NAT-CC) (343kb pdf)
- Medicines from the PBS Prescriber bag for terminal phase symptoms (96kb pdf)
- Supporting a planned home death: The GP’s checklist (310kb pdf)
- MBS remuneration to support a planned general practice palliative care pathway (Home) (125kb pdf)
- MBS remuneration to support a planned general practice palliative care pathway (Residential Aged Care) (181kb pdf)
- MBS items supporting nurse practitioner palliative care provision (171kb pdf)
- MBS items supporting allied health professional palliative care provision (176kb pdf)
Last updated 24 June 2026