Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has ordered an inquiry into end-of-life care, including the issue of voluntary euthanasia, with Queensland the last state in the country to debate the issue.

Ms Palaszczuk has told the Labor Party Conference in Brisbane the issue must be confronted.

She said the parliamentary health committee would lead the examination, which will also look at aged care and palliative care.

"Following the vote on the termination of pregnancy bill the parliamentary health committee will begin examining all issues to do with what's known as end-of-life care," she said.

"I have watched carefully as other jurisdictions have faced this issue head-on.

"I have personally listened to those who have watched their loved ones suffer … and I too have watched my own family suffer."

Ms Palaszczuk said the inquiry would also look at the broader issue of the cost and complexity of aged care in Queensland.

"We must continue to show the courage and leadership to confront issues that have been avoided for too long," she said.

She said people wanted to know about appropriate staff ratios, the quality of food, how to deal with paperwork and disposing of the family home.

"Everyone wants to know their loved ones get the best possible support, care and services," she said.

Assisted dying should not be a priority issue: LNP

The State Opposition questioned the need for the inquiry.

Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Mander said assisted dying should not be a priority issue for the Government.

Opposition spokesman Tim Mander said it was too early to say whether MPs would be given a conscience vote on the issue. ( ABC News )

"This is a really personal and emotive issue — we agree that our aged and palliative care services need to be improved and we think that's where the focus should be," he said.

The LNP's official policy is against euthanasia.

Mr Mander said it was far too early to say whether MPs would be given a conscience vote on any legislation drafted on the issue.

"These things are often not yes/no answers … that's why they're very complex and there's layers of layers with regards to considering these things," he said

"We think the Government has other things it should be focusing on. Things about cost of living issues, and traffic and congestion issues."

Cherish Life Queensland vice-president Alan Baker said he supported the inquiry looking into palliative care, but did not support euthanasia.

"We think that palliative care is underfunded. Palliative care is the true form of assisted dying. Euthanasia or physician-assisting dying is assisted killing," he said.

"It is impossible to have proper safeguards … euthanasia can be the ultimate form of elder or disability abuse.

"We are concerned that the health committee as it is currently constituted with one Green on it, is not a balanced composition. There are members of parliament on that committee with pre-determined positions."

President of Dying With Dignity Queensland, Jos Hall, said she would like to see Queensland adopt a model similar to Victoria.

"We would be looking at a very conservative model, with many safeguards, there are over sixty safeguards in the Victorian legislation," Ms Hall said.

She said recent polling shows strong support for medically-assisted euthanasia.

"It cut across and showed support from all age groups, all religious groups, all party voting intention groups so the support seems to be high in all areas, all demographics you look at," she said.

Ms Hall said she expected many Queenslanders would be taking their own life because they cannot access medically assisted euthanasia.

"In Victoria it was found that one chronically-ill Victorian person was taking their life per week, often violently … we don't know in Queensland because we don't have access to the coroner's reports but I expect they would be quite similar."

Ms Palaszczuk said she would also have the issue added to the COAG national agenda so it could be discussed nationally.

The Premier had previously said she wanted to see how Victoria's assisted dying laws worked before moving ahead with any inquiry or changes to Queensland law.

From 2019, doctor-assisted death will be legal in Victoria and an inquiry is underway through the West Australian Parliament.

In South Australia, voluntary euthanasia was knocked back for the 15th time two years ago.

It was also defeated in Tasmania in May 2017, after a third attempt to get it through Parliament.