Advance care planning

Advance care planning allows people to clearly express their values and preferences to inform clinical decision-making when they are unable to directly participate.

Victoria's advance care planning strategy aims to ensure all Victorians can express their preferences for their future treatment.

An overview of advance care planning best practice to guide Victorian clinicians in developing or activating an advance care plan.

Information and advice for clinicians about developing, reviewing and activating the advance care planning cycle.

Priorities and actions involved in implementing advance care planning across Victorian health services.

Forms to help Victorians write a legally binding advance care directive, and appoint a medical treatment decision maker and a support person.

Tools and resources to support healthcare services to implement advance care planning.

What happens when a person does not have decision making capacity to make plans for their medical treatment, and the role of the medical treatment decision maker.

The Act gives statutory recognition to advance care directives and establishes a single framework for medical treatment decision making for people without decision-making capacity.