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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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! 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
