29 July 2022 — Media release

CHF adds consumer voice to strengthening Medicare

The Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) welcomes the Albanese Government’s commitment to strengthening Medicare and the establishment of a Taskforce to listen to voices across the health sector and in the community to improve primary health services. The Taskforce meets for the first time in...
18 July 2022 — Media release

COVID response a timely intervention to bring case numbers down

The Consumers Health Forum (CHF) welcomes the reinstatement of the COVID-19 Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment, expedited by the decision of National Cabinet at an emergency meeting on Saturday. The wave of COVID-19 cases is reaching worrying numbers and medical experts are estimating a new peak in...
15 July 2022 — Media release

Vital supports are necessary as COVID cases soar

Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) is urging all political leaders and the Federal Government to respond to calls for COVID emergency measures to be continued over winter. The CHF CEO, Leanne Wells said that while these supports were temporary, the surge in COVID cases is cause for extending...
7 July 2022 — Blog

What matters most in health care?

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...
6 July 2022 — Media release

Make antivirals available to more patients – and help close down the COVID surge

Consumers Health Forum supports the call from the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and others to expand access to anti-virals beyond the current restrictions and restore funding for home delivery of medicines. CHF CEO, Leanne Wells welcomed Minister Butler’s comments this week that he...
5 July 2022 — Media release

We have the best of health care services, but are patients finding the care they need?

Patient navigation is pivotal to helping patients connect with services they need in Australia’s complex and fragmented health care system, the Consumers Health Forum says. The latest edition of the Health Voices ejournal (published last week) covers the topic of patient navigation with 12 leading...
1 July 2022 — Media release

Private health reform – what is the best way forward?

The Consumers Health Forum welcomes the call from the Australian Medical Association (AMA) for the discussion on private health in Australia. The Consumer’s Health Forum CEO, Leanne Wells, says that CHF agrees that the private health system needs reform and the AMA’s discussion paper is a useful...
23 June 2022 — Blog

How to use research to design a better health care system

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...
21 June 2022 — Blog

A connected health system

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...
17 June 2022 — Media release

Tackling loneliness with a social prescription

Loneliness and social disconnection are hidden health risk factors, and as more Australians than ever before report experiencing loneliness, as a symptom of a more disconnected society and compounded by pandemic restrictions, health advocacy groups and clinicians are calling for initiatives to...

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