Wed 18 Nov 2026
End of Life Law for Clinicians - Voluntary Assisted Dying
End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) is a free training program for pharmacists and other health professionals about Australian laws on end of life decision-making. It is funded by the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, and delivered by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research.
ELLC has 14 online training modules covering common legal issues that arise in end of life, palliative and aged care, including the laws on consent to treatment and decision-making capacity; Advance Care Directives; substitute decision-making; withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment; pain and symptom relief; and voluntary assisted dying.
ELLC is a continuing professional development (CPD) approved course for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine and the College of Intensive Care Medicine.
Registration is free. To register visit https://ellc.edu.au .
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explain the legal framework for raising and discussing VAD with patients, including how obligations differ by jurisdiction. and practitioner group.
- Identify the pharmacist's role in supporting a patient's access to VAD, including referral pathways and conscientious objection.
- Apply clinical reasoning to complex VAD scenarios, including assessing decision-making capacity, reversible causes of delirium, and changing administration routes.
- Describe how VAD is coordinated alongside palliative care.
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Dr Katrine Del Villar, PhD, FHEA, LLB (Hons), BA (Hons), GDLP
Katrine is a researcher at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on legal issues in end of life decision-making, including voluntary assisted dying, and mental health law. She is part of the End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) team, a National Palliative Care Project funded by the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care that delivers training to improve clinicians’ knowledge of end of life decision-making laws. Katrine was part of the QUT team which prepared the mandatory voluntary assisted dying training for Western Australia and Queensland health practitioners.
Nicky Maddern FANZCAP (Lead&Mgmt, VAD)
Nikcky is Manager of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Pharmacy Service within Statewide Hospital Pharmacy, Tasmania. She led the service from its establishment, serving as project lead and inaugural manager, and was named 2023 Tasmanian Pharmacist of the Year in recognition of that work and her contribution to patient-centred, equitable access to care.
Nicky has also held a number of leadership and specialist pharmacist roles in Tasmania and the Northern Territory, in public hospital and primary health care settings, over the past 15 years.
This is an AdPha-endorsed CPD activity. Attendees may record 1 hours of Group 1 CPD (a total of 1 CPD credit) in their CPD learning plan and record.
The program addresses pharmacist competency standards, including:
Standard 1.3 – Practise within applicable legal framework
Standard 1.2 – Observe and promote ethical standards
Standard 1.5 – Apply expertise in professional practice
Standard 3.2 – Implement the medication management strategy or plan
All registration rates include GST
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