Southern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium
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This website provides information about palliative care for people working in health and community services in the Southern Metropolitan Region.

If you are a patient or a carer, please go to the Palliative Care Victoria website, which has information specifically designed for patients and families.

You can find your local palliative care service on Palliative Care Victoria’s services page.

Latest News

Palliative Care 10-minute Sessions for Personal Care Workers | from Tuesday 20 August

We’re continuing these sessions! If you are a personal care attendant, please join us online in MS Teams on Tuesdays at 2.30 pm from 20 August for another series of short sharp education sessions on palliative care topics in Aged Care.
Please tell your colleagues – spread the word far and wide!

SMRPCC Lunchtime Sessions August to October

Join us from August to October 2024 for our online training sessions about palliative care in relation to:

  • Motor Neurone Disease and Parkinson’s Disease – end of life issues
  • The palliative approach in Residential Aged Care

Suitable for Registered and Enrolled Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and Personal Care Attendants. Join our FREE 50-minute lunchtime sessions.

To register for the August to October 2024 lunchtime sessions: CLICK HERE

SMRPCC’s Parkinson’s Disease Resource Suite

We’ve relaunched our suite of Parkinson’s Disease documents, with updated links to other resources and a new look. You can view or download the updated documents here:

Consider the Carer | April 2024 edition

We’ve updated Consider the Carer – a resource to help health professionals in palliative care better understand the financial and practical pressures that people face when caring for a loved one with a terminal illness.

To open the updated April 2024 edition of Consider the Carer, click here.