Oceanic Palliative Care Conference is the pre-eminent event for palliative and end-of-life care in the Oceanic region. As a sponsor and supporter of the conference, we will be publishing a series of blogs from Palliative Care Australia (PCA) and participants. In the first blog for the series, PCA discusses opportunities gained by holding the bi-annual conference virtually despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

In her third and last blog for the series, Jeanette Lacey discusses how changing questions asked in acute care hospitals can help to recognise dying earlier.

In her second blog, Jeanette Lacey provides tips on how to provide compassionate end-of-life care in a public hospital acute care unit.

World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day, held on 20 October each year, to raise awareness of the need for better evidence to information healthcare policy. To recognise this day Dr Katrina Erny-Albrecht from CareSearch discusses the distinction between data and evidence and why it is essential in evidence-based healthcare practice.