About Policy Submissions

We regularly make submissions to national level inquiries. If you are after a submission from earlier than listed here, please contact us.

19 November 2015 — Submission

Submission to Senate Inquiry into Health Insurance Amendment (Safety Net) Bill 2015

Consumers Health Forum

CHF is concerned that the link between actual costs incurred and thresholds/rebates would be further weakened by the proposed legislation and this will be to the detriment of consumers.

12 November 2015 — Submission

Submission to the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review

Consumers Health Forum

Consumers and the wider community need to have a better understanding of what Medicare care is. CHF recommends a community awareness programme about Medicare and the MBS. We will get more judicious Medicare outlays when people are more engaged with their healthcare and healthcare choices through...

16 October 2015 — Submission

Submission in response to Interim Decision on Proposed Amendments to the Poisons Standard (Medicines)

Consumers Health Forum

CHF does not support the proposed rescheduling of all codeine to Schedule 4 at this point in time. We do not think the delegate has given enough consideration to the significant system wide costs of the rescheduling or the loss of access to a range of medications that do have some benefits to...

17 September 2015 — Submission

Submission to the Review of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) Guidelines

Consumers Health Forum

This review of the Guidelines is an opportunity to continuously improve the way PBAC assesses proposals and we see it as an opportunity to give consumers more opportunity for input into the process. If this potential is to be realised then there needs to be adequate resourcing provided to...

16 September 2015 — Submission

Submission to Inquiry into and Report on Best Practice Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Health Care

Consumers Health Forum

The current, fragmented set of primary health services with their emphasis on managing ill health rather than promoting health and wellbeing are not meeting the needs of people with chronic conditions. We need to start putting the services together so they actually form a system that has at its...

3 September 2015 — Submission

Better Outcomes for People with Chronic and Complex Conditions through Primary Health Care

Consumers Health Forum

CHF's Submission to the Primary Health Care Advisory Group Survey on the Discussion Paper: Better Outcomes for People with Chronic and Complex Conditions through Primary Health Care.

10 July 2015 — Submission

Submission to the Review of the Implementation of the National Reform Agenda on Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation

Consumers Health Forum

CHF's comments on the Review of the implementation of the national reform agenda on organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

26 June 2015 — Submission

Submission to Electronic Health Records and Healthcare Identifiers: Legislation Discussion Paper

Consumers Health Forum

CHF has been engaged with the development of an electronic health record and system since its inception, and our submission is drawn from submissions into previous inquiries into the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) and similar issues, as well as the experiences of our...

15 June 2015 — Submission

Submission to RACGP Paper: Vision for a Sustainable Health System

Consumers Health Forum

Abstract: CHF's submission to the RACGP's Vision for a Sustainable Health System Discussion Paper.

18 May 2015 — Submission

Submission on the Issues Paper for the Post-market Review of the Life Saving Drugs Programme

Consumers Health Forum

The Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) is pleased to provide a submission to the Issues Paper for the Post-Market Review of the Life-Saving Drugs Programme (the Issues Paper). Before going into the content of our views, we want to express our deep concerns with the limitations the Review...

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