Training & Events
Palliative Care Lunchtime Sessions
Sessions run March to July 2025
Join these weekly online FREE 50-minute training sessions about palliative care. Suitable for Registered and Enrolled Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and Personal Care Attendants
When: Wed 2 April, 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Presented By: Victorian Palliative Care Network
Where: Online
Free Wills & Powers of Attorney sessions 2025
The session will cover:
- Our rights as we get older
- Substitute Decision Making: including Enduring Powers of Attorney and Medical Treatment Decisions
- Wills
- Challenges to deceased estates
- Family care agreements
When: Wed 2 April, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Presented By: Eastern Community Legal Centre
Where: Rowville Library
Palliative Care 10-minute Sessions for Personal Care Attendants
Sessions run March to July 2025
Join these weekly short, sharp 10-minute sessions about Palliative Care. Specifically designed for Personal Care Attendants.
When: Wed 2 April, 2:30pm - 2:40pm
Presented By: Victorian Palliative Care Network
Where: Online
Nausea Management: a quick refresher
Join Jenny McKenzie, a dedicated Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner as she shares the latest insights on assessing and managing nausea in palliative care.
When: Wed 2 April, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Presented By: Palliative Care Nurses Australia
Where: Online
Voluntary Assisted Dying Doctor Training Day
Join a group of colleagues for a dedicated day to complete the mandatory voluntary assisted dying training. You will then be able to provide assessments for your patients seeking access to voluntary assisted dying and participate in VAD to the level you feel personally comfortable.
This activity is approved for 9.5 RACGP CPD hours (including pre-session completion of modules 1 & 2).
This event is open to any doctor in Victoria, who is a Fellow of a medical college, including newly admitted.
When: Thu 3 April, 8:45am - 4:30pm
Presented By: Statewide VAD Care Navigators
Where: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Support at Home program update for older people, families and carers webinar
This webinar will give older people, families and carers an update on the Support at Home program, including information for existing care recipients transitioning into Support at Home from 1 July 2025. The Department will be joined by a representative from OPAN.
When: Thu 3 April, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Presented By: Department of Health & Aged Care
Where: Online
Adapting Cognitive-behavioural Therapy for Residential Aged Care
This webinar discusses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for older adults living in residential aged care. Case studies will be discussed, with a particular focus on practical applications of CBT and tips for practitioners interested in working within residential aged care settings.
When: Fri 4 April, 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Presented By: Swinburne Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults
Where: Online
Parkinsons Australia National Conference: Connection
This conference is Australia’s leading event exploring innovative research into the causes, prevention, improved treatments, daily living and well-being and ultimately a cure for Parkinson’s.
When: Sun 6 April - Tue 8 April, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presented By: Parkinson's Australia
Where: National Convention Centre Canberra
Cost: 495.00 (inc. GST)
Empowering Volunteers: Mental Health Strategies for Supporting Palliative Care Clients
PCV members only event
This in-person training session will empower Palliative Care Volunteers by exploring some of the most recognised mental health illnesses and how we can support the clients and carers we work with.
When: Tue 8 April, 9:30am - 4:00pm
Presented By: Palliative Care Victoria
Where: Vibe Hotel Melbourne
Cost: 25.00 (inc. GST)
The Role of Music in Complicated Grief
Presented by Eugene Dunfour
When: Thu 10 April, 5:30am - 6:30am
Presented By: MUSIC CARE by Room 217
Where: Online
HELP App - Information Session
Join this interactive session where the HELP App will be discussed and you will have an opportunity to ask questions.
When: Thu 10 April, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Presented By: HELP Team
Where: Online
CarerHelp free online sessions for carers
Caring for someone with a life-limiting illness is a very important role that can be challenging. Family carers often feel unprepared and have questions about the role. CarerHelp is now running free online information sessions to help you feel prepared for caring and answer your questions. Sessions will be run by qualified health professionals who will provide useful information, guidance, and links to services and support.
When: Thu 10 April, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Presented By: carerhelp
Where: Online
Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Conference 2025
When: Wed 23 April - Sat 26 April, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presented By: Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network
Where: Sarawak, Malaysia
Cost: 1260.00 (inc. GST)
Supported decision-making
Join this webinar to explore supported decision-making and its supporters in the new Aged Care Act. Everyone has the right to make decisions about their life and aged care. The new Aged Care Act enshrines older people’s right to make decisions about the care and services they receive and the risks they are willing to take in legislation.
When: Tue 29 April, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Presented By: Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN)
Where: Online
Palliative care for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
This workshop provides dedicated training for all members of the healthcare team in relation to caring for people from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background, who are affected by life-limiting illness. It will focus on enhancing the capacity of the healthcare workforce to provide quality, holistic and culturally responsive palliative care for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
When: Wed 30 April, 9:00am - 4:30pm
Presented By: PEPA
Where: Caritas Christi Hospice
2025 Value-Based Health Care Congress
The Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) Congress places a spotlight on the transformation needed to improve the outcomes of Australians and the sustainability of our health system. In Australia and internationally, health services and systems are exploring opportunities to move from a focus on the volume of services delivered, to the outcomes achieved, through a range of transformative programs and policies.
When: Thu 1 May - Fri 2 May, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presented By: University of Melbourne
Where: Zinc Federation Square Melbourne
Cost: 990.00 (inc. GST)
Palliative Care in General Practice for GPs
This workshop is for General Practitioners and Practice Nurses based in Victoria who care for people with a life-limiting illness.
Topics:
- Recognising patients who need a palliative approach to care
- Communicating about end-of-life issues
- Pain and symptom management
- Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria
- Advance care planning
When: Wed 7 May, 9:00am - 12:30pm
Presented By: PEPA
Where: Mercure Ballarat - Hotel & Convention Centre
Public Health Palliative Care Short Course
This ONLINE COURSE involves a commitment of 90 minutes every Thursday for 8 weeks. It is designed for palliative care professionals working with a multidisciplinary team who see themselves taking a public health palliative care leadership role.
Register by 31 March
When: Thu 8 May, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Presented By: Compassionate Communities Australia
Where: Online
Cost: 150.00 (inc. GST)
Managing Cancer Pain at End of Life
Dr Akshay Kulkarni is a physician in General and Acute medicine and palliative medicine. He holds a Fellowship to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine (FRACP, FAChPM). He works across multiple sites in Melbourne with appointments at Alfred Health, Peninsula Home Hospice and Cabrini Health. His areas of interest include the integration of hospital and community palliative care services. He works to collaborate with General Practitioners with education programs through the GP Special Interest Group (GP SIG) with Peninsula Home Hospice.
When: Tue 13 May, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Presented By: South Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium (SMRPCC)
Where: Online
Online film screening: The last two weeks at Longlee
During National Palliative Care Week, Palliative Care Nurses Australia will be hosting a national online screening of this compelling documentary, followed by a panel discussion featuring the film’s director, Susie Forster, alongside other distinguished experts in palliative and end-of-life care.
When: Wed 14 May, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Presented By: Palliative Care Nurses Australia
Where: Online
Cost: 25.00 (inc. GST)
Palliative Story Exchange
As part of National Palliative Care Week, join this online storytelling event among peers, facilitated by Dr. Alexis Drutchas, Dr. Richard Leiter, and Rachel Rusch, LCSW, co-creators of The Palliative Story Exchange.
This free, online storytelling event aims to bring people together to share openly, listen deeply and find solace and meaning in our shared experiences as clinicians, volunteers, and caregivers.
Stories will be told by members of the Australian palliative care community. We welcome and encourage stories from EVERY discipline within hospice and palliative care and from caregivers.
Attendance will be free. Registrations will open soon.
When: Fri 16 May, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Presented By: Palliative Care Australia
Where: Online
The Power of Choice
Award-winning photographer Julian Kingma, and broadcaster and voluntary assisted dying advocate Andrew Denton, come together for a powerful discussion about dignity, compassion and the revolution of end-of-life care in Australia.
When: Mon 19 May, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Presented By: The Wheeler Centre
Where: The Wheeler Centre
Cost: 29.50 (inc. GST)
Free Wills & Powers of Attorney sessions 2025
The sessions will cover:
- Our rights as we get older
- Substitute Decision Making: including Enduring Powers of Attorney and Medical Treatment Decisions
- Wills
- Challenges to deceased estates
- Family care agreements
When: Wed 21 May, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Presented By: Eastern Community Legal Centre
Where: Doncaster Library
Palliative Care two-day program 2025
Tuesday 8:10 am to 4 pm / Wednesday 8:30 am to 4:15 pm
This introductory 2-day program focuses on the care of patients in the palliative care setting. Topics include Models of care, communication, Adolescent & Young Adult and Palliative care, moral distress, symptom management, dying at home, challenging issues at end of life, voluntary assisted dying, care of the deceased patient and panel discussion.
When: Tue 27 May - Wed 28 May, 8:00am - 4:15pm
Presented By: Peter Mac Cancer Centre
Where: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
National MND Health Professional webinar series
Series runs until November 2025
The 2025 MND Health Professionals Webinar Series is a collaboration between MND State Associations including MND Victoria, MND NSW, MND SA, MND WA and MND QLD.
Register for this health professional webinar bundle to have access to all 5 of the 2025 Health Professionals Webinar events and recordings.
When: Tue 27 May, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Presented By: MND Victoria
Where: Online
Cost: 150.00 (inc. GST)
Train the Trainer - Developing your own Biography Program
This Train the Trainer course is available in three levels from learning how to create a biography, to learning how to establish your own program.
Available in Gold, Silver & Bronze levels
When: Wed 4 June, 9:00am - 11:00am
Presented By: Eastern Palliative Care Assoc. Ltd
Where: Eastern Palliative Care Training Room
Cost: 1950.00 (inc. GST)
Palliative Approach in Aged Care
This workshop aims to improve the understanding and practice of the aged care workforce in the palliative approach to care through:
- Understanding the important role that palliative care plays in the lives of people with life-limiting illness and their families/carers
- Increasing confidence to provide holistic and person-centred care to the older person living with a life-limiting illness.
When: Thu 19 June, 9:00am - 4:30pm
Presented By: PEPA
Where: Caritas Christi Hospice
Gold Coast 4th Annual Palliative Medicine Interventions and Updates Conference
Topics of discussion include:
- Pharmacotherapy – emerging drugs previously banned
- Interventions in Motor Neuron Disease – neural implants, PEGs, NIV and radiotherapy
- Changing Paradigms in Cancer – new treatments and changing prognoses
- Updates in General Medicine
- Philosophy in Palliative Care – the past and the future
When: Fri 20 June - Sat 21 June, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presented By: Gold Coast Hospital Foundation
Where: Gold Coast University Hospital
Cost: 150.00 (inc. GST)
Free Wills & Powers of Attorney sessions 2025
The sessions will cover:
- Our rights as we get older
- Substitute Decision Making: including Enduring Powers of Attorney and Medical Treatment Decisions
- Wills
- Challenges to deceased estates
- Family care agreements
When: Tue 24 June, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Presented By: Eastern Community Legal Centre
Where: Glen Park Community Centre
Free Wills & Powers of Attorney sessions 2025 copy
The sessions will cover:
- Our rights as we get older
- Substitute Decision Making: including Enduring Powers of Attorney and Medical Treatment Decisions
- Wills
- Challenges to deceased estates
- Family care agreements
When: Tue 22 July, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Presented By: Eastern Community Legal Centre
Where: Online
National Nursing Forum
This forum is the Australian College of Nursing’s signature annual leadership and educational event bringing together nurses, students and other health professionals from around the country and across the globe. Attendees will enjoy face-to-face presentations and interactions with the nursing network, the opportunity to connect with valuable sponsors and exhibitors to learn about the latest products and more.
When: Wed 23 July - Fri 25 July, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presented By: Australian College of Nursing
Where: National Convention Centre
Compassionate Communities Australia National Forum
This forum will bring together Compassionate Communities from across Australia to network and learn from each other while facilitating a discussion with the broader palliative care sector, which will be meeting for the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference from 10 to 12 September in Brisbane.
When: Tue 9 September, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presented By: Compassionate Communities Australia
Where: Brisbane
2025 Oceanic Palliative Care Conference (25OPCC)
Connecting Systems for Better Care
Early bird registrations are available to 30 June
This conference will extend the discussion to the wider health sector and the different systems of care that intersect with palliative care. Aged care, primary health, oncology, dementia care, disability services, paediatrics, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health are all growing aware of the role they can and need to play in someone’s palliative care journey.
25OPCC will energise that discussion and with government and policymakers in the room, the region’s future reform agenda will start to take shape.
When: Wed 10 September - Fri 12 September, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presented By: Palliative Care Australia
Where: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Cost: 1290.00 (inc. GST)
9th Advance Care Planning International Conference
Earlybird registrations are available to 30 June
This conference will focus on ‘Are we there yet?’ and aim to embrace these journeys by interweaving advance care planning best practices and research through cultural, personal, organisational, system, and societal lenses. Advance care planning is a crucial starting point in the journey towards person and family-centred care.
When: Wed 24 September - Fri 26 September, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Presented By: Advance Care Planning Australia
Where: RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast
Cost: 1430.00 (inc. GST)