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PallConsult
PallConsult is funded by Queensland Health and has been designed to boost the ability of local healthcare teams to deliver patient-centred palliative care, especially in rural and remote parts of the State.
Queensland Health is committed to improving health services for Queenslanders in areas of need. One such area is community-based end-of-life care, especially in rural and remote parts of the state. PallConsult has been designed to boost the ability of local healthcare teams to deliver patient-centred palliative care.
PallConsult is part of a larger Queensland Health initiative aiming to enhance delivery of community-based palliative care services with the use of telehealth resources and tailored vocational education. PallConsult will enable people in the last year of their life to access the right care, at the right time and in the setting of their choice. This 
factsheet explains more about PallConsult.
About us
The aim of PallConsult is for Metro South Palliative Care Service specialists to outreach and build capacity across Queensland for community-based clinicians to provide quality care for people approaching end of life and wishing to remain at home.
Services include:
- 24/7 hotline for doctors and nurse practitioners to directly access a palliative care medical consultant
- 24/7 hotline for nursing and allied health staff to access specialist palliative care staff
- Medical consultant backup palliative care advice for Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics and the Royal Flying Doctors Service
- Education and mentoring sessions for community and residential aged-care facility staff.
Resources
NIKI T34, T34 and BodyGuard T syringe pump
A learning package for health professionals on how to safely set up, commence and provide necessary documentation for the NIKI T34, T34 and BodyGuard T syringe pump for use in palliative care clinical settings - community, residential aged care and inpatient.
Palliative care resources, tools and education
This document allows GPs, nurses and personal care workers to easily locate relevant resources, tools and education relating to palliative and end-of-life care.
The Surefuser infusion device
A suite of resources has been developed for health professionals to learn how to set up, commence and monitor a Surefuser infusion device for use in the palliative care setting.
palliPHARM
A project working with community pharmacists to ensure Residential Aged Care Facility residents and all other community-based palliative care patients have timely access to palliative care medicines, if needed.
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More information
Advance care planning
- Advance Care Planning - Online Education and Train-the-Trainer Guide
- Advance care planning (ACP) education for health professionals – modules to assist with the correct completion and lodgement of Queensland ACP documents
- Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning – Queensland Health Advance care planning information for consumers and health professionals
Managing a home death
- Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning
- Acute Resuscitation Plan
- MASS Palliative Care Equipment Program (MASS PCEP)
- caring@home project
- Death at home - Checklist for families (PDF, 203.18 KB)
- NIKI Syringe Pump Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Chart
- Community Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Order (over 24 hours)
- Life Extinct Form (QH staff only)
Medicine and symptom management
- WEBINAR: Community-based Palliative Care Anticipatory Medicines: Guidance for Queensland. A short webinar to assist clinicans to navigate the Guidance document.
- NEW: Guiding Principles for Mediciation Management in Residential Aged Care Facilities, a resource from the Department of Health and Aged Care in collaboration with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
- Guide to the Pharmacological Management of End of Life (Terminal) Symptoms in Residential Aged Care Residents: A Resource for General Practitioners
- caring@home - resources for health professionals and carers of people who choose to be cared for, and to die at home, if possible.
- Inserting a subcutaneous intima - step by step guide (PDF, 942.37 KB)
- Opioid Rotation Conversion Learning Package
- palliMEDS app - for management of common emergent symptoms in home-based palliative care patients in the last few weeks of life. Features an opioid calculator tool
Patient and carer
- End-of-Life Care - Online education
- End-of-Life Care Framework - Last 12 months of life (PDF, 98.25 KB)
- Printable resources for staff, patients, residential aged care residents and their families
Useful forms
- NIKI T34/T34/BodyGuard T Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Chart (inpatient use)
- Community Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Order (over 24 hours)
Voluntary Assisted Dying
Contact
1300 PALLDR*
(1300 725 537)
24/7 palliative care advice hotline for doctors, NPs, paramedics and pharmacists
1300 PALLCR*
(1300 725 527)
24/7 hotline for nurses and allied health in all care environments
*Services are available for clinical staff who do not have easy access to existing palliative care services in their local area.
Last updated 7 March 2023
Last reviewed 9 February 2023