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)
• Example expected death letter (PDF, 208.24 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

• caring@home - resources for health professionals and carers of people who choose to be cared for, and to die at home, if possible.
• Guide to the Pharmacological Management of End of Life (Terminal) Symptoms in Residential Aged Care Residents: A Resource for General Practitioners
• 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
• Specialist Palliative Rural Telehealth Service
• Statewide expected death letter (PDF, 208.24 KB)

Useful forms

• NIKI T34/T34/BodyGuard T Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Chart (inpatient use)
• Community Subcutaneous Medication Infusion Order (over 24 hours)