Major projects

National Palliative Care Programs and Initiatives

The Commonwealth Government has funded 14 national projects across 2023-2026 as well as a number of initiatives. These projects focus on improving the quality of palliative care in Australia through workforce education and training, quality improvement, increasing support in rural and regional areas, data development activities, and encouraging the uptake of advance care planning.

The National Palliative Care Projects and Government initiatives together support the National Palliative Care Strategy 2018. They are listed here but you can read more about them on the Department of Health and Aged Care's palliative care initiatives and programs webpage.

• Advance Care Planning Australia
• The Advance Project
• CarerHelp
• CareSearch – Palliative Care Knowledge Network
• Caring@Home – Symptom management for palliative patients
• Comprehensive Palliative Care in Aged Care measure
• Education and assessment for psychosocial and existential wellbeing in palliative care
• End of Life Direction for Aged Care (ELDAC)
• End of Life Essentials – education for acute hospitals
• End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC)
• Greater Choice for At Home Palliative Care Program
• Gwandalan National Palliative Care Project
• Improving palliative care services for people with an intellectual disability
• Indigenous Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (IPEPA)
• LGBTIQ+ Health Australia
• The National Palliative Care Coordination Program
• palliAGED – palliative care aged care evidence
• Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program (PACOP)
• Palliative Care Australia
• Palliative care curriculum for undergraduates (PCC4U)
• Palliative care in Australian prisons
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC)
• Palliative Care Pharmacist Foundation Training Program
• Palliative Care Project Echo
• Palliative Care Service Navigation Pilot
• Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA)
• Quality of Care Collaborative – Australia (QuoCCA)
• Shaping the Future of Paediatric Palliative Care
• Talking End of Life – with people with intellectual disability (TEL)