1 February 2021 — Media release

Active Ingredient Prescribing makes medication easier

The introduction today of Active Ingredient Prescribing will help clarify consumers’ understanding of the medicines they are prescribed, the Consumers Health Forum says. “This is a welcome advance for patients by focusing, where practical, on the name of the effective ingredient of a medication...
21 January 2021 — Media release

Strong vaccine messaging of vital value

The scale and complexity of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout make it vital that Federal and state governments urgently step-up comprehensive communications to ensure the best possible outcome, the Consumers Health Forum says. CHF has today released its position statement on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout...
19 January 2021 — Blog

Principles to guide links between health consumer organisations and the pharmaceutical industry

Health consumer organisations (HCOs) have a major and growing voice in health policy, including through submissions and discussions about government subsidy for new medicines. Health consumer organisations are funded in a variety of ways and many accept pharmaceutical industry funding. This...
13 January 2021 — Media release

More health literacy needed to stamp out fake health news

The Consumers Health Forum welcomes the AMA’s position statement on health literacy as important recognition of the need for strong public support for people to have access to valid health information. “CHF has long argued for more focus on health literacy to ensure people understand their own...
21 December 2020 — Media release

Health cover rises flatten but still pose cost hurdle for many

The lowest average rise in health insurance premiums in nearly 20 years is welcome although many Australians in the current economic climate will struggle to meet the increased cost, the Consumers Health Forum said today. “The 2.74 per cent average increase in premiums to take effect next April is...
14 December 2020 — Blog

Mental health and person-centred care: how two Commissions reach the same verdict

CHF’s Consumer Commission report whose key recommendations included a focus on mental health, came out just days after the release of the Productivity Commission’s final report on mental health. The two reports produce broadly similar findings about the widespread dearth of services and pressing...
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30 November 2020 — Blog

Academy to advance health consumers’ interests

Much health policy decision-making is a contest between government and the powerful vested interests in health. That poses a constant challenge to ensure the interests of the most important player, the consumer, are not squeezed, or in fact squeezed out, of the process.
9 November 2020 — Blog

Social prescribing --- an ideal time for consumers to write the script

Leanne Wells, Mark Morgan and Leanne Beagley Social prescribing presents a step forward in healthcare. Far from being left behind by the dominating impact of COVID on health thinking, it appears that the pandemic is reinforcing the potential of social prescribing as a spur to improved health care,...
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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...
1 October 2020 — Blog

Healthy people, healthy economy

More than ever the COVID experience has brought home to us how inextricably the population’s health is linked to economic health. We have seen everyday evidence of how strong public health systems protect people and the economy by reducing the spread of recession-inducing disease. We have also seen...

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