Palliative Care Choices Program

What is the Palliative Care Choices Program?

We’ve partnered with the specialist palliative care teams at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane, Calvary North Adelaide Hospital (Mary Potter Hospice) and HammondCare, to deliver palliative care services to eligible Bupa customers living in Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney, at no extra cost.

The program supports you to choose where you would like to be cared for – and where you would like to die – as the end of life approaches.

Customers in Melbourne please note: From 23 July 2021, Palliative Care Choices services will temporarily not be available in Melbourne. We are working to restore services as soon as possible.

Why we developed this program

Research has found that 70% of Australians would like to die in their own home, but only 14% of people actually do.

Access to home-based palliative care services has been found to double the chance of being able to die at home, and helps reduce the symptom burden caused by advanced illness, without increasing grief for family or caregivers.

Within the next 20 or so years, the number of Australians who die each year is predicted to double, so for Bupa, considering how best to improve end-of-life care to give you, or your loved one, dignity, respect and choice is imperative.