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 it. Big questions. Real answers’ – aligns perfectly with Palliative Care WA’s emphasis on promoting and increasing awareness of palliative care and advance care planning in the WA community. Visit our website to learn more about our work.

Our events

During National Palliative Care Week, we will be running a range of events and activities, including our Annual Palliative Care Sector Breakfast – this year in Perth, Bunbury, Albany and, for the first time, Karratha.

You are invited to join us for this popular breakfast event that this year will focus on grief and how the care we give shapes the grief that follows. It will feature conversations with Chris Hall, CEO of Grief Australia, and a panel of experts and people with lived experience of grief.

See HERE for details on how to book your place at our Sunny Side Up breakfast.

Sponsors and supporters

The breakfast has been made possible by very generous sponsorship and support from Parkinson’s WA, Silverchain, Cares Communities, Bethesda Health Care, Brightwater Care Group, PaSCE at Cancer Council WA, and Richard Lockwood.

Richard Lockwood has been a highly appreciated supporter of Palliative Care WA for a number of years. This year, his foundation’s generous support will once again allow us to facilitate three country satellite events for our Annual National Palliative Care Week 2026 Sector Breakfast – in Bunbury, Albany and Karratha.

Other activities during NPCW 2026

We are also conducting a series of ACP workshops and a PalliLEARN workshop. Please see links below:

My Future Care – Advance Care Planning Workshop – open to the public in Nedlands – 11 May 2026

My Future Care – Advance Care Planning Community Workshop – open to the public in Bunbury – 11 May 2026

PalliLEARN session on palliative caring – 12 May 2026

Grief Café in National Palliative Care Week – 14 May 2026

Get involved

If you want to get involved and hold your own event, here are branded posters you can use to publicise your events. Please visit Palliative Care Australia’s website for a collection of resources you can use, including logos, event posters, social media tiles, and a supporter toolkit: National Palliative Care Week 2026 campaign resources – Palliative Care Australia

If your organisation has an event organised and you would like to promote it, please email info@palliativecarewa.asn.au and we will help you spread the word.