Dr Elizabeth Deveny CEO, Consumers Health Forum of Australia Dear Dr Deveny I write to you today to invite you to stay up to date with the work of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Advisory Committee (MRAC). The MRAC was established as an independent, clinician and consumer led non-...
I stood down as CEO of the Consumers Health Forum in August after 7 years. During those years CHF has nurtured important collaborative relationships with numerous organisations. Our capacity to ensure the consumer voice is heard and represented in Government health policies has been dependent on...
What a good question! The Consumers Health Forum of Australia Ltd (CHF) is the national voice for health consumers. In 1988 when CHF was first established with government funding The Hon Neal Blewett, Minister for Community Services and Health, in a speech to CHF said – “Without informed,...
If Australians need evidence of our national health crisis, we should look no further than the Census. Eight million of us, nearly one-third of the entire population, now have a long-term health condition. The question we must ask ourselves as a nation is whether we’re willing to accept this high...
This year’s Australian Health Consumer Sentiment Survey showed us that Australians have considerable faith in our healthcare system. With 84 per cent of the survey’s 5,000 respondents saying they were satisfied with the health services they received, we’re clearly getting a lot of things right...
As digital ways of doing things are becoming part of our everyday lives and, as we all get better at it, we see its value and indeed its potential. At the same time this has increased consumer expectations that this potential will be harnessed in ways that will improve all our lives. Digital health...
The Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) and the Australian National University’s Institute for Communication in Health Care (ICH) co-hosted a national, interdisciplinary webinar on Friday May 25 th 2022 — “ The role of health communication in patient safety and quality of care ” . Over 170...
Over the past two years, Australians have become acutely aware of the impact of changing health policies, requirements and advice have had on their daily lives as we have battled the Covid-19 pandemic. We have witnessed first-hand the stresses on the health and aged care systems, whether it’s the...
After a tenure of more than seven years at the helm of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF), current CEO Ms Leanne Wells has advised the Board of her wish to step down from the role. Ms Wells has led CHF since April 2015 during a time of great change and opportunity in healthcare, not...
The Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) hosted an important webinar on Monday to coincide with the release of the latest Health Consumer Sentiment Survey , the largest health study of the general population in Australia. The survey is aimed at understanding the health system from a consumer...
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