Doctor and patient viewing an x-ray image
7 May 2015 — Blog

What patients want from clinicians but often don’t get seems surprisingly simple: being treated as an individual.

Above all else patients want professionals who see them as more than just a problem to be solved. CHF CEO Leanne Wells on being treated as an individual.
clinician talking to patient
20 April 2015 — Blog

What will it take for a system that is truly patient-centred?

"The latest Commonwealth plan to reboot Australia’s primary care system offers the potential for consumers to have a greater say over how their local health services should work. We hope." CHF CEO Leanne Wells on the potential of the PHNs
prescription form
27 March 2015 — Blog

Pharmacy deal in urgent need of new script

The auditor’s exhaustive scrutiny of the administration of the Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement (5CPA) shows the Health Department and the Pharmacy Guild failed to deliver on key government goals like giving more focus to patient services and maximising value to taxpayers. CHF's Adam Stankevicius on the 5CPA.
26 February 2015 — Blog

Price signals and health hazards

CHF CEO Adam Stankevicius on the revised GP co-payment proposal and why the 'price signal' could be bad for your health.
26 February 2015 — Blog

What is the value of a Medicare price signal?

CHF CEO Adam Stankevicius asks what is the point of a health system unless the impact on patient care is not the first point to be considered?
8 October 2014 — Blog

Consumer participation: we’re doing it to improve the way we deliver services

CHF CEO Adam Stankevicius recently provided an article for the Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA) on "Consumer participation: we’re doing it to improve the way we deliver services".
22 August 2014 — Blog

Absurdity and evidence: as told to national workshop

"For all its strength, absurdities do haunt Australia’s health “system”. It was this subject which made for a cracking start to CHF’s national workshop this week. The two-day meeting in Melbourne heard a flood of ideas to boost the consumers’ role and improve health care." A blog by CHF Communications Director Mark Metherell.
30 July 2014 — Blog

Harsh medicine not necessarily the best cure

"The Australian health system wallows in a state of uncertainty as the federal ­government grapples with how to match its budgetary vigour with the reality of heavy demand and strained supply in healthcare" A blog by CHF CEO Adam Stankevicius published in the Financial Review
10 July 2014 — Blog

When does medical confidentiality become unjustified secrecy?

In this blog, originally published on Croakey, CHF CEO Adam Stankevicius highlights the problems for transparency with Medicine Australia’s proposed code of conduct.
24 June 2014 — Blog

Australia’s health costs: an international reality check

The evidence continues to mount against the Federal Government’s proposed health measures and the rationale for their introduction. In this blog, Adam Stankevicius, CEO of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia, looks at how Australia compares in a range of important areas, and the implications of measures like the proposed $7 copayments regime

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