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. Find your local palliative care service on Palliative Care Victoria’s services page.
Join us for the 2026 Southern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium Symposium, bringing together clinicians, researchers, and lived experience voices to explore contemporary issues in palliative and end-of-life care.
We are delighted to announce that the symposium will be MC’d by Kellie Finlayson, an inspiring speaker, author, and passionate advocate for people living with chronic illness. Kellie is widely recognised for her work raising awareness of bowel cancer and for sharing her powerful personal story with honesty, warmth, and impact.
The program will feature leading experts and thought-provoking sessions across a range of topics, including:
• The power of paediatric palliative care
• Lived experience and family perspectives
• Supporting people with alcohol and other drug use in palliative care
• Family estrangement at end of life
• Incarceration and palliative care
• The Support at Home End of Life Pathway
• The power of art therapy in palliative care
• Spirituality in palliative care
• Voluntary Assisted Dying – six years on
This full-day event will offer a unique opportunity to connect, learn, and reflect on how we can continue to improve care for people and families at end of life.
Further details and registration information coming soon.