Planning for your future care

Advance care planning (ACP) is thinking about and making choices now about your future health care. Part of this is making sure your family, friends and health care team know your wishes, values, beliefs and treatment preferences. This will help them make decisions about your health care when you’re not able to.

Planning your future health care is important at any age, and the best time to think about it is when you’re well.

How we can help

We offer advance care planning help and support in our hospitals, community health centres and local residential aged care homes. We also run free education sessions for community groups.

Our advance care planning team can:

  • help you understand the types of health care decisions you might need to make
  • guide you through conversations with friends and family about your health care wishes, preferences and values
  • support you to fill in advance care planning forms
  • explain how to share your wishes with your family and your health care team.

Advance care planning forms

We use the following forms to record your wishes, values, beliefs and treatment preferences about how you wish to be cared for:

We can help you decide which form suits your circumstances.

Read more about advance care planning at My Care, My Choices on the Queensland Government website.

Community health centre information sessions

We run free monthly sessions at community health centres where you can learn more about advance care planning from a specialist nurse, including:

  • What is ACP. This includes when it might be needed, and why it's important for you, your family, friends and your health care team
  • ACP forms. We can help you decide which ACP forms you want to use and support you to complete them. We can also help you share them with your GP, other health professionals involved in your care, and the Queensland Health Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning.

For more information about our community health centre information sessions, dates and locations or to book a place, call 1300 227 674.

Telehealth

We offer free telehealth appointments to discuss advance care planning. Our specialist nurses will help guide you through the process. Call 1300 227 674 to book your place.

Hospital teams

We offer free advance care planning services at all our hospitals. For more information about your local team, call 1300 227 674.

Group education sessions

We offer information and education sessions for community groups. If you belong to a community group that is interested in learning more about advance care planning, call 1300 227 674.

Information for health professionals

We offer direct support, information, education and resources to general practice and residential aged care home staff within the Metro South Health catchment.

Information, education and resources about advance care planning is available to support other health professionals in Queensland. This includes GPs, hospital and community-based clinicians and residential aged care home staff.

View the Supporting ACP in general practice factsheet [PDF 422.73 KB] for more detail.

Visit the Queensland Health website or contact the Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning on 1300 007 227 for more information.

Contact us

Metro South Health Advance Care Planning Service

Last updated: April 2026

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