Palliative Care Tasmania

Gentle reminder that our Supporting Through Loss training is coming up soon.

This practical and compassionate session is designed for professionals and volunteers who support people experiencing grief and loss. Together, we'll explore the realities of grief, challenge common myths, and share simple strategies to support others with confidence, compassion, and care.

If you've been thinking about attending, there's still time to register.

📅 Date: 15 Jun 2026
🕒 Time: 10am - 12pm
🔗 Register: https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0WT6Q0

We look forward to welcoming you. 🧡

Thank you to Public Trustee for delivering this informative Estate Planning webinar as part of Law Week.

If you missed the live session, the recording is now available to watch at a time that suits you. The webinar covers important topics including wills, powers of attorney, enduring guardianship, and advance care planning. 🧡

Planning ahead can help ensure your wishes are known, your affairs are in order, and the people important to you are supported.

🎥 Watch the recording here: https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0YfzM0

Thank you again to Public Trustee Tasmania for helping Tasmanians better understand the importance of planning for the future.

Our friends at Spring Bay Su***de Prevention Network Inc. are hosting their annual Winter Solstice Swim at Raspins Beach, Orford on Saturday 20 June.

Whether you're brave enough for a quick dip, keen to show off a fancy dress costume, or simply want to enjoy the community atmosphere, everyone is welcome. After the swim, warm up with a free BBQ, hot drinks, and live music from local musician Cam Tapp.

Community events like these are a wonderful reminder of the importance of connection, wellbeing, and coming together during the colder months.

📍 Raspins Beach, Orford
⏰ Arrive by 7.30am | Swim at 8.00am

We encourage our community to come along, join the fun, and support this fantastic local event.

Grief touches all of us, both personally and professionally. Supporting Through Loss is a practical and compassionate training designed for professionals and volunteers who support people experiencing grief and loss.

You'll explore what grief can look like, challenge common myths, reflect on your role, and gain simple strategies to support others with greater confidence and compassion. 🧡

Whether you work in healthcare, community services, administration, or another setting, this session offers valuable insights for anyone supporting people through life's changes and losses.

📅 Date: 15 June (Monday)
🕒 Time: 10am - 12pm
🔗 Register: https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0WRWm0

Behind every great palliative care experience is a team of people working together with compassion, dedication and care. They are the nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, volunteers, care workers, social workers, counsellors, community organisations, funeral providers, bereavement services, and many others who support Tasmanians through some of life's most challenging moments.

Perhaps you've seen a team go above and beyond for a patient or family. Maybe you've witnessed exceptional care, kindness, innovation, collaboration, or support that made a lasting difference.

Now is the time to recognise them.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Tasmanian Palliative Care Awards, including the Outstanding Team / Service Delivering Palliative Care category, proudly sponsored by Public Trustee.

This award recognises teams and services that demonstrate excellence in supporting people with a life-limiting illness, their families, and carers.

With eight award categories available, there are many opportunities to celebrate the individuals and teams making a difference across Tasmania.

🧡 Nominate today: https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0WTSK0

Thank you to Public Trustee for proudly supporting this award category and helping us celebrate excellence in palliative care across Tasmania.

Truth. Reckoning. Change. At Palliative Care Tasmania, we know that healing begins with honesty. Supporting people through serious illness, dying, grief and loss means sitting with difficult conversations, listening with compassion, and making space for truth to be heard.

This National Reconciliation Week, we recognise that conversations about care, grief, loss and dignity do not exist separately from history, culture, and lived experience. Reconciliation calls on all of us to listen more deeply, acknowledge truth, and work towards care that is safe, respectful, and inclusive.

This week, we invite our community to reflect, listen, and consider what reconciliation looks like in the way we care for one another.

Volunteers are at the heart of so much of what happens in palliative care. Today, we want to recognise a very special volunteer, Caroline Cochrane.

For the past two years, Caroline has generously given her time to Palliative Care Tasmania. Every Tuesday, she helps pack and send our free online resource orders to people and organisations, helping important palliative care resources reach the people who need them.

Caroline also supports our events, always bringing kindness, warmth and enthusiasm. We are incredibly grateful for her passion for palliative care and the care she brings to everything she does.

This volunteers week, we would also like to acknowledge many volunteers who help make this work possible.

To our Board, thank you for your leadership, governance, advocacy and the steady support you provide behind the scenes. To our lived experience voices, thank you for sharing your stories so generously and helping create greater understanding of palliative care in our community.

To volunteering groups across the South, North, North West and right across Tasmania, thank you for the time you give supporting patients, carers and families with compassion, companionship and care.

And to volunteers across Australia who support people through palliative care, grief and bereavement, thank you. Your kindness makes a difference every single day. 🧡

Nominations are now OPEN for the 2026 Tasmanian Palliative Care Awards!
Do you know someone who goes above and beyond in palliative care?

Now is the time to recognise the people, teams, volunteers and organisations making a real difference in the lives of Tasmanians navigating serious illness, dying, death, grief and bereavement. 🧡

With eight award categories, there are many ways to celebrate excellence, compassion, innovation and dedication across the palliative care sector.

This year, the Awards are stepping onto a bigger stage as part of the Palliative Care Tasmania 2026 Conference – End-of-Life Ecosystem: The Power of Connection, giving us an even greater opportunity to shine a light on the incredible people and services shaping palliative care across our state.

A sincere thank you to our award partners and supporters for helping make this important recognition possible.

Nominate now: https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0VJLt0