Call for Abstracts
Palliative Care NSW is hosting its biennial State Conference this year in Sydney from 22 – 24 October. The Scientific Committee warmly invites everyone who either works in or has an interest in palliative care to submit an abstract for consideration.

General Information
Just over 30 years ago the first Annual General Meeting of the Palliative Care Association of NSW was held.With this historical reference point in mind abstracts are invited that focus on what we have learned from the past 30 years about Palliative Care:

      How does our past impact on current palliative care practice and thinking

      Where are we now in palliative and end of life care practice and provision

      How might the palliative and end of life care landscape look in the future.

The conference seeks contributions that explore or inform or challenge around these three palliative and end of life care themes: The Past, the Present and the Future.

Theme examples may include, but are not limited to, the following.

The Past
How does the “Palliative Care Past” impact on the practice, understanding, research agenda or service models of the “Palliative Care Present”?

What values or experiences from the “Past” are most important to remember and retain?

Has the vision and goals of the “Past” been realised?

Is the “Palliative Care Past” now ancient history?

The Present
How is the current Palliative Care landscape different to the past?

Current changes in Palliative and End of Life Care: What is being achieved?

Current Palliative and End of Life Care clinical practice and service provision: What works and what doesn’t?

What key research questions remain unanswered?

The Future
What current trends in disease incidence/disease management inform future palliative and end of life care practice?

What current innovations in clinical practice and service provision will become the new normal?

Will Palliative Care still exist in 2025?

IMPORTANT DATES
5 April 2014          Registration opens
5 April 2014          Call for Abstracts Open
6 June 2014          Abstract submission closes
4 August 2014      Author notification
31 August 2014    Early Bird Registration Closes


Abstract Instructions
Abstracts must:
·   Address the identified conference theme/s (and state theme/s addressed by the abstract)
·    Describe original work
·   Be of interest to a wide audience
·   Be no more than 250 words
·   Be single spaced in 12 point Arial font
·   Fit on an A4 page with 2.5cm margins on all sides
·   Contain Title, Author(s) full name and title, underline presenting author, institution, and address, email and contact daytime phone number.
·   Indicate preferred presentation type – Oral, Poster
·   Contain a short bio of the presenting author
·   If you specifically wish to submit for a poster, please clearly state this on the front page of your abstract. Poster size must not exceed 1 metre in width
·   All abstracts will be printed in the conference program.

Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts must be received by the Palliative Care NSW office by 9am Friday 6 June to be considered for inclusion. All authors will be advised of their acceptance or otherwise by 30 June 2014.

You can email your abstracts to info@palliativecarensw.org.au. If email is not available to you, you may post a CDROM of your submission to:
Palliative Care NSW, PO Box 487, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012

Please note
All presenters will be required to register for the conference and pay the registration fee. You must also arrange your own travel and accommodation.