Palliative Care Australia (PCA) has been producing specialist National Palliative Care Standards for over 15 years, with the objective to improve quality palliative care experiences and outcomes for people, their families, and carers.

The current suite of quality improvement resources developed by Palliative Care Australia (PCA) includes:

-          The National Palliative Care Standards 5th ed (2018) 

-          PaCSA –Palliative care self-assessment online portal

-          Palliative Care Service Development Guidelines (2018)
-          Paediatric Addendum: Palliative Care Service Development Guidelines (2019)

-          National Palliative Care Standards for All Health Professionals and Aged Care Services (for those not working in specialist palliative care) (2022)

The speaker will introduce through the suite of quality review and improvement tools available to services under this suite of resource and examples of how these are used for quality improvement in practice.  They will also discuss the two-phase consultation process for the limited scope review of the National Palliative Care Standards 5th ed. (2018) for specialist palliative care services and next steps for the Standards in specialist palliative care.