Can Payment Reforms Give Consumers Real Buying Power? The MyCover Plan
Health Insurance Summit 2016
Patient-centred Healthcare Homes in Australia - Towards Successful Implementation
In Australia we are faced with a complex health system with entrenched practices, multiple layers and stakeholders divided across Federal and State systems, which is also often hard to navigate for both patient and provider. The question we must address is how do we ensure the Health Care Home can reach its potential in Australia and deliver the best outcomes for patients? This report outlines recommendations around the following guiding principles towards successful implementation.
COTA National Policy Forum Presentation 2016
Making sure older consumers are at the centre of health care
Can PHNs reflect consumer priorities?
The new primary health networks will fail a central requirement of a contemporary health organisation if they do not respond to consumer needs. CHF CEO, Leanne Wells, had that message in a speech prepared for a conference of the National Primary and Community Health Network Australian and Institute for Primary Care and Ageing at Latrobe University.
Australian Labor Party Response to CHF Election Platform
The Australian Labor Party's response to CHF's 2016 Federal election platform.
7 Principles of Consumer-Centred Care
CHF Appraisal of the Pharmacy Reforms and 6CPA
This document outlines CHF's initial appraisal of the recently announced pharmacy reforms and 6CPA. While there are some positive points of difference between last agreement (5CPA) and 6CPA, the current Agreement does not go far enough to drive improvements in terms of greater competition and innovation in this sector, resulting in greater accessibility and affordability for consumers. The Package was billed by the Government as being a big win for consumers however, as the following top-line analysis shows, the bigger winners were pharmacy and the Government.
Consumers Shaping Health, vol 9, issue 3, June 2015
Budget 2015: CHF's initial response; Pharmacy agreement offers pills with a sugar coating; Online health records trial a big step forward; What patients want from clinicians but often don't get: being treated as an individual; Choosing Wisely; Looking for ways to engage your consumers?; Congratulations Senator Di Natale; Recent submissions
Health Voices, Issue 18, April 2016
Consumer-centred health care in the 21st century
Putting the Consumer First
To develop a framework for how this might happen in Australia, The George Institute for Global Health and the Consumers Health Forum of Australia partnered on a Special Policy Roundtable held in Sydney on 31 March 2016. Involving over 35 consumers, advocates, and health experts from a range of backgrounds, and representing key stakeholders (see list at end of report), these individuals developed the themes crystallised as recommendations in this report, based on the principles of consumer-centred care.