We are delighted that the new Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon. Mark Butler MP, joined us to discuss future plans for health in this webinar for consumers, members and stakeholders on 5 August 2022. Members and consumers were invited to propose questions to aid the discussion on the...

Emerging Health Technologies in Australia: Developments in automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and more Emerging technologies such as automated decision-making (ADM) and artificial intelligence (AI) are being increasingly applied within healthcare contexts. However, media coverage tends to...

The role of health communication in patient safety and quality of care Communication in health care is a major quality and safety issue. Every day in Australian hospitals, miscommunication causes avoidable critical incidents - patients die, are harmed or receive the wrong treatment because of...

The Primary Health Care Reform Summit was co-convened in May 2022 by the PHN Co-operative and Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF). This page will no longer be updated (as of 20 June 2022). The Primary Health Care Reform Summit Roadmap report is available here . For the latest information on...

How will health policy and delivery change after the election? What health measures are the major parties promising to deliver? Who might be the new Minister for Health, and what might they want for health policy? How might a hung Parliament affect health measures? How can CHF and consumers...

The Voice of Australian Health Consumers The launch of the preliminary results from the latest Australian Health Consumer Sentiment Survey The Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) hosted this important webinar on Monday 28 March 2022 to coincide with the release of the latest Australian Health...

In this webinar, we look at the role of consumers as assessors in accreditation. Hear from current consumer assessors and key leaders in the Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHS). All Australian health service organisations are required to be accredited under eight standards that...

A discussion on the media coverage of the Covid pandemic with ACT ABC Friends How well has the media handled the demands of reporting on and analyzing the biggest pandemic in a century? What have we learnt? Has media coverage been of overall benefit for health consumers? Join health and media...

The draft Government response to the recommendations of the 10 Year Primary Health Care Plan Steering Group is available for consultation. Submissions close on 9 Nov 2021. Primary care matters to everyone as the main setting where the majority of Australians get their health care, and reform has...