Type: On-demand Recorded: 27 Aug 2026
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On-demand recorded 27 Aug 2026
Join RACGP Victoria and the Victorian Department of Health for an update on two important areas of general practice: palliative and end-of-life care, and opioid dependence treatment. Hear from leading clinical experts about Victoria's new Palliative and End-of-life Care Framework 2026–2036, the upcoming amendments to the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017, and the practical implications for GPs. The webinar will also provide guidance on the planned discontinuation of Sublocade® in Australia and what GPs need to know to support patients receiving long-acting injectable buprenorphine treatment.
This event is part of 2026 Department of Health Victoria and RACGP Victoria webinar series. Events in this series are:
Emmanuel is an occupational medicine doctor and practice owner at Hartnett Clinic Seaford. His clinical area of focus is doctors’ health: he is a crisis counsellor with the Victorian Doctors’ Health Program and is a graduate of Stanford University Medical School’s Physician Wellbeing Director Course. Outside of his clinical work, he is passionate about medical governance, having been appointed to the Australian Medical Council’s Specialist Education Accreditation Committee, and digital health: he has been awarded the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre Emerging Leaders Scholarship and sits on the Victorian Clinical Informatics Council.
Greg was a GP in Bendigo for 22 years during which time he developed a special interest in palliative care, which led to retraining as a palliative care physician in Melbourne and completing his Fellowship in 2007. Greg has developed a special interest in clinical ethics particularly as related to end-of-life care and decision-making. He was a member of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Implementation Taskforce appointed by the Victorian Minister of Health to oversee the introduction of the VAD legislation in Victoria, and in July 2024 was appointed as a member of the Victorian VAD Review Board. Greg is a ‘conscientious provider’ of VAD which he incorporates into his specialist palliative care practice.
Dr Paul MacCartney is the Chief Addiction Medicine Advisor in Victoria . He is a General Practitioner and addiction medicine specialist with 25 years of experience in community health public advocate for the care and treatment of people who use drugs. Member of the expert advisory committee on opioids developer of a multidisciplinary AOD treatment model in regional Victoria and contributor to public health responses to high-potency synthetic opioids trainer and supervisor for colleagues and registrars in opioid and alcohol dependence treatment.
Hear from Associate Professor Mark Boughey, Victoria's first Chief Palliative Care Adviser, about Victoria's new 10-year Framework for palliative and end-of-life care. Mark will explore what it means for GPs, the importance of strong partnerships across sectors and disciplines, and how the Framework can be translated into practice. Associate Professor Boughey has more than 30 years’ experience as a specialist palliative medicine physician and is well known for his contributions to the sector, including as an Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne and senior leadership roles at St Vincent’s Hospital and their Centre for Palliative Care. Mark has also mentored emerging sector leaders in developing countries through his previous role as the President of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine at the Royal Australian College of Physicians.
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