VADSA Policy Position Statements
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VADSA Position Statement: Providing an end of life choice of assisted dying for people with dementia
- VADSA Position Statement: Access to VAD for a person living with a disability
- VADSA Position Statement: Religious Opposition and Voluntary Assisted Dying
- VADSA Position Statement: Mandatory Voluntary Assisted Dying Training a Barrier to Clinician (Doctor or Nurse) Participation
- VADSA Position Statement: Prognosis as an Unreliable and Unjust Barrier to Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia
VAD related Research papers
VAD: Estimating life expectancy to determine eligibility, MJA, Sharon H Nahm, Martin R Stockler and Belinda E Kiely
Med J Aust 2022; 217 (4): 178-179
Published online: 25 July 2022
Accuracy of clinical predictions of prognosis at the end-of-life: evidence from routinely collected data in urgent care records
Orlovic, M., Droney, J., Vickerstaff, V. et al. Accuracy of clinical predictions of prognosis at the end-of-life: evidence from routinely collected data in urgent care records. BMC Palliat Care 22, 51 (2023).
Experience internationally of the legalisation of assisted dying on the palliative care sector; report prepared by Aspex Consulting for Palliative Care Australia, October 2018
The 66 page report examines the impact of voluntary assisted dying legislation on the delivery of palliative care services in the Netherlands, Belgium, Oregon, Washington State, Quebec Province and Canada. The report concludes that there is
no evidence to suggest that the palliative care sectors were adversely impacted by the introduction of the legislation. If anything, in jurisdictions where assisted dying is available, the palliative care sector has further advanced. (p5)
Evidence-based law-making on voluntary assisted dying
Ben P White and Lindy Willmott Australian, Centre for Health Law Research, QUT, December 2019
White and Willmott argue the case for law makers to be informed by evidence when they develop and consider legislation. In the same way that other health policy is based on evidence and independent research, White and Willmott argue for a change in the way decisions are made on the detail of a law to use a similar evidence based approach.
For more research on VAD and end of life care see: End of Life, Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology
Go Gentle Australia
GGA produces a range of reports and policy statements in relation to VAD. These include VAD in Residential Aged Care, State of VAD, Federal VAD matters, VAD Conference Reports.