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CHF is Australia’s leading advocate on consumer health care issues.

We work to achieve safe, good quality, timely healthcare for all Australians, supported by the best health information and systems the country can afford.

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Telehealth must be the start of the health ‘revolution’

6 October 2020 — Media release
The Federal Budget provides for the beginnings of a “revolution” in health care that should be a down payment for wider reforms and investment to meet 21 st century needs, the Consumers Health Forum says. “The Health Minister, Greg Hunt, has described the expansion of telehealth as a ‘revolution in...

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The Australian and New Zealand
Consumer Experience and Leadership in Healthcare
Virtual Summit 

The CHF Summit: Shifting Gears has been postponed until 18-19 March 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The closing dates for abstract submissions and registrations have been extended. We look forward to welcoming you to our rescheduled conference in March 2021.

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Consumers as leaders in health care

 

 
A voice for health consumers
Making sure consumers are part of the health conversation as effective advocates and leaders.
 
Improving the quality of health services
Working with health and social support systems to implement consumer-centred reforms that make the right kind of difference.
 
Influencing policy
Advocating consumer-centred health care to governments, health and social support systems.

 

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Australia's Health Panel is a CHF project that adds your voice to the national conversation on health policy through timely and high quality surveys.

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The latest news, blogs and publications from CHF

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13 October 2020 — Blog

Tips to help you on your collaborative way

First it was improvement, then it was innovation that we were all doing, now its co-design and co-creation. Specifically, in healthcare it is Experience Based Codesign that everyone is talking about. An enabler for co-design is the practice of genuine collaboration. Interestingly, there are not...
7 October 2020 — Media release

Patient power blueprint released

The Consumers Health Forum welcomes a new report released today which sets out a national blueprint for support and development of self-care. The blueprint for reform developed by the Mitchell Institute of Victoria University calls for government leadership to spur Australians to take more interest...
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Australia's health system as told by consumers

Have a health story to tell?

Patient Opinion is an independent site about your experiences of Australian health services, good or bad. They pass your stories to the right people to make a difference.

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Upcoming Events

27 October 2020

Young Advocates webinar series - Effective communication

This webinar series is brought to you by CHF's Youth Health Forum and Orygen - Revolution in Mind. The aim of this webinar series is to provide information that will be useful to young people in their work as individual advocates or as they work with government, health services or community groups...
Self care .... patient power: a follow-up webinar on the Blueprint report - Wed 28 Oct
28 October 2020 — Canberra, Australia

WEBINAR: Self-care… patient power

Self-care and self-management: a follow-up to the blueprint report Wednesday, 28 October 2020 at 12:00 pm (Australian Eastern Time) #CHF webinar series - self-care and self-management Join this session to hear about self-care and self-management, and the follow-up to the Mitchell Institute’s...
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