Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning

The Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning is a statewide service (funded by Queensland Health) that helps to promote the important processes of advance care planning. We:

• provide information and resources about advance care planning (ACP)
• receive and review copies of ACP documents from people across Queensland
• upload ACP documents to a person’s Queensland Health electronic hospital record
• share health care wishes with clinicians involved in a person’s care
• connect people to ACP services in their local area (where available)
• manage a central database of Queenslander’s end-of-life care preferences.

Queensland is the first State/Territory in Australia to have a statewide, standardised clinical approach to receive, review and upload advance care planning documents.

Recording your decisions

The Statewide Office of ACP receives Statement of Choices (SoC), Advance Health Directive (AHD), Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA), Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) Orders and revocation documents from individuals, hospitals, health services, GPs and residential aged care facilities across Queensland. We review the documents we receive and if they are complete, we upload them to the person's Queensland Health hospital record (the ACP tracker in The Viewer). This provides:

• peace of mind for individuals, knowing their ACP documents can be accessed by clinicians when needed
• direct, real-time access for clinician to a person's ACP documents to guide care decisions
• confidence for clinicians in the quality of the information contained within the ACP document.

To inform health service planning, the Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning manages a de-identified central database of Queenslanders’ preferences for end-of-life care (end-of-life preferences database), as they appear on the Statement of Choices and Advance Health Directive. Learn more about the privacy and confidentiality policies that protect the de-identified data.

Add your wishes to The Viewer

Send us a copy of your advance care planning documents to have them included in The Viewer database. Your wishes will then be available to authorised clinicians involved in your care when they are required.

The Viewer is a web-based application that provides consolidated clinical information about each patient who receives treatment or care at a Queensland Health facility. The Viewer ensures authorised Queensland Health clinical staff, including Queensland Ambulance Service, GPs and pharmacists have timely access to a patient’s public healthcare information.

Watch a video about the ACP Tracker app (in The Viewer) and how it supports quality end-of-life care.

Send a copy of completed advance care planning documents to the Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning, for review and upload to the person’s Queensland Health electronic hospital record (The Viewer) via:

Email: acp@health.qld.gov.au
Fax: 1300 008 227
Post: PO Box 2274, Runcorn Qld 4113

If you wish your document/s to be in My Health Record you can upload them via the My Health Record website.