About us

PallConsult provides clinical outreach services to build capacity across Queensland for local clinicians to provide quality care for people approaching end of life and wishing to remain at home. The PallConsult team comprises medical and nursing specialists from the Metro South Palliative Care Service.   

Services include:

• 24/7 hotline for doctors, nurse practitioners and pharmacists and paramedics to directly access a specialist palliative care medical consultant
• 24/7 hotline for nursing, allied health professionals, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers/practitioners and residential aged care facility staff to directly access specialist palliative care nurses
• Education and mentoring sessions for hospital, community and residential aged care facility clinical staff.

First Nations Palliative Care Project (2023-2025)

PallConsult has been funded to deliver the First Nations Palliative Care Project, which aims to:

• Improve capacity to meet the palliative and end-of-life care needs of First Nations Queenslanders
• Increase culturally and clinically evidence-based, culturally safe, and culturally responsive care services across the health sector for First Nations Queenslanders
• Enhance and develop culturally appropriate resources and tools designed with and for our First Nations Queenslanders
• Focus on workforce, resources, education, and systems development. In line with the PallConsult service model, this project is not a provider of direct care to patients and families. Contact the PallConsult First Nations team for more information.

Resources

NEW - CADD-SOLIS and CADD-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps

A learning package for health professionals on how to safely set up, commence and provide necessary documentation for the CADD-SOLIS and CADD-SOLIS VIP infusion pumps for use in palliative care clinical settings - community, residential aged care and inpatient.

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More information

End-of-Life Care Framework

• End-of-Life Care Framework - Last 12 months of life (PDF, 98.25 KB)
• End-of-Life Care - Online education modules for Residential Aged Care

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 
• Specialist Palliative Rural Telehealth Service
• MASS Palliative Care Equipment Program (MASS PCEP)
• Acute Resuscitation Plan
• 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)
• Example expected death letter (PDF, 208.24 KB)

Medicine and symptom management

• NEW: Community-based Palliative Care Anticipatory Medicines: Guidance for Queensland (PDF, 1010.54 KB)
• 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 Medication 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

Useful forms

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

Voluntary Assisted Dying

• Information for health professionals and consumers regarding voluntary assisted dying in Queensland.