Pain relief leads palliative care scripts

Over one million palliative care‑related prescriptions were dispensed in 2024-25, according to a new AIHW report In 2024–25, there were 1.6 million palliative care-related prescriptions provided to 488,000 people, according to a new report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare today (Thursday 14 May). Of these, eight in 10 (80% or 1.2