Implications of voluntary assisted dying for advance care planning

Abstract

Ben P White and Lindy Willmott were engaged by the Victorian, Western Australian and Queensland governments to provide the legislatively required training for doctors (and nurses and nurse practitioners where relevant) involved in voluntary assisted dying. Ben P White and Lindy Willmott have been engaged by the Western Australian Government to be involved in the statutory review of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019 (WA). Lindy Willmott is also a member of the Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board. Madeleine Archer was employed on the Victorian, Western Australian and Queensland voluntary assisted dying training projects. Casey M Haining was employed on the Queensland voluntary assisted dying training project as a legal writer and as a research fellow on the statutory review of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019 (WA). Casey M Haining is Advance Care Planning Australia's former National Policy Manager; views expressed in this article represent her own views and do not necessarily reflect those of Advance Care Planning Australia.