End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) has launched a new FREE online training course for residential aged care, home and community care, and aged care providers. The course focuses on common legal issues in aged care at the end of life, and health professionals’ legal roles and…
The most common diseases linked with voluntary assisted dying
More and more countries are legalising voluntary assisted dying. This lets a doctor, or sometimes a nurse practitioner, give life-ending medication to an eligible person who requests it. As of 2023, 282 million people lived in regions where voluntary assisted dying is legal. Jurisdictions such as the Netherlands,…
ACHLR and ADSS public lecture – The Social Life of Death
In this public lecture, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research and Australia Death Studies Society (ADSS), Professor Alex Broom PhD will discuss people’s experiences at the end of life. Event details Date: Wednesday 31st July 2024 Time: 3.30pm – 5.00pm (AEST time) Location: Gibson Room,…
The legal pioneers behind end-of-life law in Australia
QUT’s health law experts Professors Lindy Willmott and Ben White have played a key role in end-of-life law in Australia. Their extraordinary 20-year-plus professional relationship has helped give 98 per cent of Australians the choice of a better death. Their work is a concrete example of making a…
Voluntary assisted dying is now available in all Australian states. How do the NSW laws compare?
From today (28 November 2023), eligible people in New South Wales can ask for voluntary assisted dying. Casey Haining, Ben White, Katrine Del Villar and Lindy Willmott, members of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) have published an article in The Conversation explaining the eligibility requirements…
First Australian study of patient experience of Voluntary Assisted Dying process
Specially trained voluntary assisted dying care navigators have greatly improved access to assisted dying in Victoria, a patient experience study recently published in the Medical Journal of Australia has found. The study team, pictured above from left, Ruthie Jeanneret, Professor Ben White, Professor Lindy Willmott and Dr Eliana Close…
$30 million funding for QUT palliative care projects
QUT research projects have received nearly $30 million from Federal Government funding to fund palliative care projects. Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler announced a total of $68 million in funding for 14 National Palliative Care Projects, which included three QUT projects: $12.5 million for…
MAiD in Canada: Cautionary Tale or Model?
In the second episode of the QUT Global Law, Science and Technology Seminar Series for 2023, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), Professor Jocelyn Downie described the legal status of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada and explained what is happening in practice.…
Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity
QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research is seeking to appoint a new Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a 3 year appointment. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will carry out research and support the undertaking of research projects about end-of-life law and voluntary assisted dying in Australia. The position is…
Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board appointment
Professor Lindy Willmott has been appointed to the Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board. From 1 January 2023. the Board will oversee, monitor and report on the operation of voluntary assisted dying in Queensland. The Board will review each completed voluntary assisted dying case to ensure compliance with…