Education
Palliative Care WA runs free, informative and interactive community workshops on advance care planning and palliative care in Perth and regional WA thanks to funding from the WA Department of Health.
Our series of PalliLEARN online workshops are supported by the Lockwood Charitable Foundation.
These workshops are open to the public and are listed on our Events page.
To find out more about the specific workshops we run, please see below:
My Future Care – Advance Care Planning Community Workshops
Advance Health Directive (AHD) document support workshops
PalliLEARN workshops – online only
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PalliLEARN workshops – online
Our online community workshops, called PalliLEARN, are supported with funding from Richard Lockwood and cover the following topics: What is palliative care? What…
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AHD document completion workshops
Our free Advance Health Directive (AHD) document completion workshops, held across the metropolitan area and in some country areas, will assist you to…
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Resources
The following PCWA resources and links to other resources are available for your use: Palliative Caring booklets Palliative Caring – Revised September 2024 My…
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Palliative care workshops – in person
Palliative Care WA delivers a range of free, informative and interactive community education workshops to help people learn more about palliative care. Palliative…
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ACP community workshops
Palliative Care WA runs free, informative and interactive community workshops on advance care planning and palliative care in Perth and regional WA thanks to…
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Death cafés
What is a death café? Deathcafe.com is a worldwide movement started in London in 2010 by Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid, based on…
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Grief cafes
A grief cafe is a compassionate space to have open conversations and find mutual support over coffee or tea. Our grief cafés are…
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View allEvent explores how palliative care and VAD can together support a person’s end-of-life choices
Our ‘In Good Company’ event on Wednesday 8 July 2026 offers informal and respectful conversation, exploring how voluntary assisted dying and palliative care can together support a person’s end-of-life choices. The…
PCWA welcomes State Government’s new palliative care implementation plan
Palliative Care WA congratulated Health Minister Meredith Hammat MLA, the Cook Government, and the WA Department of Health’s End-of-Life Care Program for their ongoing commitment to improving end-of-life and palliative…
Save the date – 2026 Palliative Care Summit – 12 November 2026
The 2026 Palliative Care Summit promises to be the best yet. Save the date – 12 November 2026 – for “Innovation at the Heart of Care – AI and technology…
Thanks for another successful National Palliative Care Week
A big thank you to all our sponsors and supporters together with community members who supported our National Palliative Care Week 2026 events and activities. We very much appreciate you…
Health Minister Meredith Hammat opens PCWA’s National Palliative Care Week Sector Breakfast
Health Minister Meredith Hammat today opened Western Australia’s National Palliative Care Week 2026 sector breakfast, bringing together leaders from across the health, aged care and community sectors to recognise the…
National Palliative Care Week starts tomorrow!
National Palliative Care Week starts tomorrow! Visit our website to see what’s happening in WA, including Advance Care Planning workshops, a sector breakfast, a workshop on palliative caring, workshops on…
Dr Ellen Knight joins Palliative Care WA Board
Palliative Care WA is pleased to announce that Palliative Care Physician Dr Ellen (Ellie) Knight has joined the Board of Palliative Care WA. Dr Knight FRACP AFRACMA works in both…
It’s time to take out or renew your Palliative Care WA membership for 2026/27
Your membership plays an important role in enabling us to represent and connect the palliative care sector across Western Australia, and to advocate for better access, coordination and outcomes for…
Your voice matters to us!
We greatly value your input into what we do as the peak body for Palliative Care in WA. To help us gather data around how we proceed in the next…
National Palliative Care Week 2026 starts on 10 May
Our annual awareness raising campaign, National Palliative Care Week 2026, running from 10 to 16 May is just around the corner. This year’s theme – ‘Getting to the heart of…
Tickets now on sale for PCWA’s annual sector breakfast 12 May 2026
Tickets are now on sale for our annual sector breakfast on Tuesday 12 May for National Palliative Care Week 2026 (110 to 16 May). This year the breakfast will focus…
On the road with ACP – Esperance trip receives positive feedback
Esperance community members learnt all about Advance Care Planning last week when PCWA team members Sabena and Julia visited the south-east coastal community. Our two workshops – My Future Care…