Draft strategies for advance care planning awareness raising, training and education consultation

Overview

Advance care planning (ACP) is an ongoing discussion between you, your loved ones and your health care professionals. It involves learning about the different choices available and choosing the type of medical care that is best for you. An Advance Health Directive (AHD) is a legal document in which you can write what treatments you want or don’t want in specific circumstances.

The End of Life Care (EOLC) Program within the WA Department of Health is developing high level strategies to outline WA’s approach to awareness raising, training and education for health professionals and the community.

The draft strategies have been developed following recommendations from the My Life My Choice Report and a subsequent Ministerial Expert Panel report on Advance Health Directives and aim to enable Western Australians to more effectively engage in advance care planning. 

Why We Are Consulting

The EOLC Program is seeking input into the draft strategies via the completion of a survey. The survey seeks to gather your feedback on input on the comprehensiveness and anticipated effectiveness of the overall approach outlined by the strategies. The survey also seeks to identify existing education, training and awareness raising initiatives that are of relevance to the strategies.

We encourage all members of the WA community to have their say by completing this online survey. In particular, we are seeking feedback from:

• those involved in the planning and delivery of education, training and awareness raising of ACP and AHDs
• health and care providers involved in ACP and AHD development with patients/clients.

The information collected by this survey will inform and guide the finalisation of the strategies and support their implementation across the State.

If you are not familiar with the topic, we encourage you to find out more about advance care planning or AHDs in the links.

About the survey

The survey is expected to take about 20 minutes to complete. All responses to this survey will remain private and confidential.

Before commencing this survey, please ensure you have downloaded the draft strategies (see ‘Related Documents’ below survey link) and have it available to refer to.

You may exit the survey at any time and can save your progress by providing your email address. Please note that your results will not be submitted, if you do not press "submit" at the end of the survey. 

To begin the survey, click on the 'Online Survey' link below.

If you have any queries, please email the EOLC Program at acp@health.wa.gov.au or phone 9222 2300.