2025 marks 30 years of National Palliative Care Week. In 2025, NPCW runs from Sunday 11 May to Saturday 17 May with the theme ‘What’s your plan?” This question is purposeful:
- For individuals and families – it challenges them to think about their own future and quality of life, make informed choices, and decide how they want to be cared for.
- For the health and care sectors – it prompts reflection on capacity, innovation, and readiness to meet growing demand in a community that feels empowered by end of life planning.
- For government – it calls for accountability, opening an opportunity to discuss policy, investment, and strategy, and addressing the future palliative care needs of our community.
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
The latest life expectancy data from the ABS shows that girls born in 2021-2023 could expect to live to 85.1 years. The AIHW’s Australian Burden of Disease Study measures the impact of diseases and injuries on a population. It combines the years of healthy life lost due to living with ill health (non-fatal burden), with the years of life lost due to dying prematurely.
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Caring for someone with a life-limiting illness is a very important role that can be challenging. Caring whilst living in a regional, rural or remote area can bring further challenges. It can be more difficult to find and navigate health care and services and you are often managing both local services and metropolitan services. CarerHelp now has new pages dedicated to all Australians who are ‘Caring in the Country’. The new pages include factsheets about travelling for healthcare, finding local services, and using your community network. CarerHelp has also put together some videos of rural carers who have shared their lived experience and health providers discussing key issues and providing useful advice.
Thursday, 13 March 2025
CarerHelp is offering free online sessions for carers with a health professional to provide information and guidance to carers. There are multiple session topics to choose from depending on where they are in the caring journey, from recent diagnosis of life-limiting illness through to bereavement. Please share with your families and find out more at: Register for online sessions - CarerHelp.
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Community pharmacists play an important role in supporting families and carers who are providing care for a home-based person with a life-limiting illness. To support this role, pharmacists can now order the Community Palliative Care Resources Pharmacy Pack, developed by caring@home.
Thursday, 20 February 2025
The Strategy outlines recommended steps to address national allied health workforce issues over the next 10 years. Members of the community and the health workforce can read about the consultation and provide feedback. Have your say before the Survey closes on 3 March 2025. For more information and to complete the survey, visit https://consultations.health.gov.au/primary-care-mental-health-division/nahwsdraft
Monday, 17 February 2025