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Current Policy & Advocacy consultations
Member feedback: National Consensus Statement on paediatric end-of-life care
Feedback deadline | 5pm AEDT, Friday 12 December 2025
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare has commenced a revision of the National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality paediatric end-of-life care (PDF). The
statement provides 9 guiding principles that define safe and high‑quality end‑of‑life care, followed by 10 essential elements that outline the key actions that should be applied by healthcare services providing paediatric end‑of‑life care. The
revised Consensus Statement incorporates neonatal-specific considerations, findings from a rapid review of paediatric end-of-life care literature, and input from clinical experts and consumers.
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Member feedback: Best practice in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Feedback deadline | 5pm AEDT, Friday 21 December 2025
Seeking member feedback before finalising and publishing the new RACP “Best Practice in Occupational and Environmental Medicine” policy document. This new policy document replaces the earlier “Ethical Guidelines for Occupational
and Environmental Medicine Physicians” with a broader scope. The document is intended as a guidance resource for Occupational and Environmental Medicine Physicians. Read the draft document via the button below.
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Seeking member feedback: Ethical considerations for providing telehealth healthcare services
Feedback deadline | 10am AEDT, Monday 19 January 2026
The RACP Ethics Committee has prepared a new document for physicians and trainees: Ethical considerations for providing telehealth healthcare services. The guidance contains principles to guide ethical telehealth practice together with detailed information under several sections. This guidance is comprehensive in its address of ethical considerations relating to telehealth and is not intended as an operating manual for telehealth. Read the draft document via the button below.
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