Every two years, Palliative Care Australia delivers the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference. This event brings together hundreds of palliative care professionals from across the globe and fosters multidisciplinary collaboration, equipping attendees with knowledge, skills, and networks to continue making valuable contributions and changes to the way they approach and deliver palliative care services. 

 

Conference presenters have the opportunity to share the latest in research and best practice in palliative care with a broader international focus particularly from our neighbours within the Oceanic region. 21OPCC facilitates learning and professional development for the palliative care sector. 

 

If you are interested in sharing your work with a passionate cohort of like-minded peers, we welcome your abstract submissions. The official conference of Palliative Care Australia has a long and proud history of bringing together all involved in the delivery of palliative care as well as those outside the sector. 

We are delighted to invite you to contribute your voice. We welcome abstracts that present original research, projects and their evaluations, and encourage the sharing of innovative practice. For the first time, we also have a theme that will allow the sharing of narratives and stories.  21OPCC encourages first-time presenters.

The theme for the 2021 Oceanic Palliative Care Conference is Invest Challenge Change. 

The theme builds on a global push to ensure that we build better, more resilient health systems, better able to meet critical healthcare needs in normal circumstances, and sufficiently resourced to meet needs during times of emergency and crisis. Palliative care services are under-resourced at the best of times. But the advent of COVID-19 has placed a stretched system under additional strain. 

Governments need to make good on their commitment to invest more in palliative care. 

 

We need to challenge the existing thinking that places palliative care on the periphery of health systems. And we need to drive change that helps us meet not only existing need but the future needs of a rapidly ageing and growing population that is living with more complex and chronic illness. 

 

The Conference will attract the decision makers and policy influencers of today, the future leaders of tomorrow, and those involved in the latest research and thinking about the importance of palliative and end-of-life care on a national and international scale.

To learn more about the presentation themes click here