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We encourage and facilitate service commitment, best practice, professional development and sector-wide collaborations. Our aim is to strengthen the sector as a whole, to benefit those working within the sector, and ultimately, the WA community.
Fostering excellence
To recognise excellence and showcase the achievements of organisations, teams and individuals providing quality palliative care in WA, we run the biennial Palliative Care in WA Awards.
We also advocate the importance of palliative care education and training for everyone who cares for people at the end of life, and support delivery of care consistent with Palliative Care Australia’s National Palliative Care Standards.
Sector events
We provide opportunities for networking and professional development at a range of sector-wide events throughout the year. These include:
See Reports and publications for key documents related to our sector-wide events.
Collaborations
We contribute to the development of the palliative care sector by establishing and maintaining collaborative committees as needed. One such collaboration is the Advance Care Planning WA Agency Consortium, which is committed to increasing the number of Western Australians undertaking advance care planning.
Initiatives
We work with partner organisations on various projects with the aim of enhancing knowledge and understanding of palliative care and advance care planning in the community. Some recent and ongoing initiatives have included partnerships with WAPHA, Linkwest and Umbrella Multicultural Community Care.
Consultations
To ensure we reflect a diverse range of views, needs and issues, we consult widely across the palliative care, aged care and community services sectors when preparing submissions and policy papers and when developing our own strategic priorities.
The Sensory Loss Project is a partnership project between Palliative Care WA and WA Primary Health Alliance. It is supported by funding from…
What do palliative care volunteers do? Volunteers contribute to palliative care in many ways, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to support…
Lasting Words – capturing life’s reflections The Lasting Words program allows people who are approaching the end of their life to have their…
We facilitate the CEO Roundtable for Palliative Care in WA. Meeting two to three times a year, this group provides high level advice to…
Palliative Care WA does not receive recurrent funding from government but we do receive project and activity grants from the End of Life Care…
What are Compassionate Communities? Compassionate Communities are communities where everyday people play a stronger role in the care and support of people as…
A support program to address the information needs of employees who are carers Companies who Care (CwC) is a support program designed to…
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…
Our Writing Life and Death Together workshop on Friday 6 February led by authors Peta Murray and David Carlin in beautiful surroundings at the Herdsman Discovery Centre was a big…
You can find out more about Advance Care Planning by attending one of our workshops. Here is the latest schedule for January and February for our workshops in the metropolitan…
Join Palliative Care WA as we again host the Dead Right Quiz Night. With a new and improved format, it promises to be a fun night of trivia, fellowship and…
Palliative Care WA (PCWA) today announced the appointment of Mark Kinsela as its next Chief Executive Officer, commencing 2 March 2026. Mark will succeed Lenka Psar-McCabe, who will retire from…
As we begin a new year and chapter, Palliative Care WA would like to acknowledge outgoing Board President Dr Elissa Campbell. Dr Campbell, who had been Board President for eight…
We would like to take this opportunity to once again thank you for your support this year and to extend our very best wishes for a safe and joyous festive…
It’s been a very busy and rewarding year for Palliative Care WA. We have continued to strive to support the sector to allow our incredible palliative, health and aged care…
Following our Annual General Meeting, we are proud delighted to announce that Palliative Care WA (PCWA) has a new President, Liz Behjat. Liz is State Manager of Ageing Australia. Hiren…
HBF recently interviewed our staff members Julia Kennington and Sabena Lund about advance care planning and palliative care and shared the videos on Facebook. You can view these videos here:…
Our Palliative Care in WA Awards 2025 last week sponsored by Silverchain saw the sector come together to recognise and celebrate the exceptional people, teams and organisations who make such…
