End of Life and Palliative Care Research Grant Program 2024-25 to 2026-27 - Grant Opportunity Guidelines

​Summary

The NSW Government’s commitment to ensuring high quality end of life and palliative care across NSW. New funding is being invested in a range of initiatives to increase access and deliver services that respond to the needs of people with life limiting conditions.

The Research Grant Program is an initiative that will build the evidence base to support NSW Health to respond to End of Life and Palliative Care (EOLPC) needs of patients, carers, families and communities.

The Research Grant Program aims to support projects that align with the following priorities:

• Pharmacological and non-pharmacological symptom management for EOLPC patients
• Collaborative care models across teams and settings to improve patient, carer, family and community experience and outcomes
• Culturally and socially inclusive care for Aboriginal, culturally and linguistically diverse, and LGBTIQ+ patients, carers, families and communities
• Psychosocial support for grief, loss, and bereavement for patients, carers, families and communities.

The program is open to NSW based research institutions and universities, local health districts, specialty health networks, non-government organisations (NGOs), and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs). Where the lead agency is a local health district, specialty health network, NGO, or ACCO, they must partner with or demonstrate formal affiliation with a NSW based research institute or university to undertake the research project.