CHF appreciates the opportunity to provide a comment in response to proposed changes to a number of definitions and the scope of the medical device regulatory framework in Australia.
At the heart of CHF’s policy agenda is patient-centred care. Our responses to the TGA’s consultation questions have been formed with a patient-centred approach in mind.
Consultation: Changes to a number of definitions and the scope of the medical device regulatory framework in Australia
Consumers Shaping Health Volume 13 Issue 2 March 2019
TGA Update on Medical Device Reforms - Webinar and Presentation
During 2019, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) will continue to implement changes in response to the Review of Medicines and Medical Devices Regulation (MMDR). This webinar aimed to update consumers on these medical device consultations and answer questions from consumers.
Consumers Shaping Health Volume 13 Issue 1 February 2019
Specialist fees and performance transparency - potential for improvement
This position statement has been developed by the Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) and the Centre for Health Policy, the University of Melbourne. It has been informed by the discussions at a Specialist Fee and Performance Transparency Roundtable held at the University of Melbourne on the 12 June 2018 and other consultation such as CHF’s Out of Pocket Pain survey.
The statement has been endorsed by:
Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research - University of Melbourne
Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association
2019-20 Federal Budget Submission
This submission is prepared in the context of an imminent federal election. CHF will be putting out an election priorities document which sets out our proposed agenda for health reform for through to 2025.
Consumers Shaping Health Volume 12 Issue 5 December 2018
Annual Report 2017-18
CHF's 2017-2018 annual report demonstrates our ongoing commitment to ensuring that integrating the experience and insight of consumers into organisational activities is a priority.
Shifting Gears: white paper summary
Shifting Gears - Consumers Transforming Health
Over thirty years of consumer advocacy in health at the national level is reason to ponder the direction of health care and the role consumers and communities will play in shaping our health care future.
It is common belief that we need more preventative and integrated primary health care. The hospital of the future will look very different from the hospital of today. Changes to how health care is delivered are going to accelerate at an unprecedented pace driven by digitalisation, consumer
expectation and the advent of genomics and precision, personalised medicine.
Consumers will assume a ‘new power’. They will command convenience and access to high value, modern, personalised services that meet their needs. They will expect to have choice and control over the services they pay for. They will be activated more than ever with access to burgeoning information and innovations that will assist them to stay well, self-manage and access quality care tailored to them.