8 February 2019 — Position Statements

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

Read the statement here

2 January 2019 — Submission

2019-20 Federal Budget Submission

Consumers Health Forum

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.

12 December 2018 — Consumers Shaping Health

Consumers Shaping Health Volume 12 Issue 5 December 2018

Consumers Shaping Health
29 November 2018 — Annual Reports

Annual Report 2017-18

Consumers Health Forum

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.

25 November 2018 — Report

Shifting Gears: white paper summary

Consumers Health Forum
25 November 2018 — Report

Shifting Gears - Consumers Transforming Health

Consumers Health Forum

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.

15 November 2018 — Health Voices

Health Voices Issue 23, November 2018

Consumers Health Forum

In this issue of Health Voices, young people with lived experience reflect on the many challenges faced by youth when trying to navigate the health system – and how things could improve for those who follow.

14 November 2018 — Report

Youth Health Forum Call to Action

The Youth Health Forum

The Youth Health Forum is a network of over fifty young leaders from across the country who came together in September 2018 to discuss our perspectives on the current health system. We are not health policy experts, but experience matters. Our views highlight key areas that will help shape the health of Australians in the future.

13 November 2018 — Submission

Submission on Paracetamol Reschedule

Consumers Health Forum

CHF is committed to the National Medicines Policy and in ensuring that all Australians have access to high quality, safe medicines and that all medicines should be used in line with the principles of the quality use of medicines.

CHF is keen to ensure the scheduling process is used to protect consumers by restricting access based on possibility of harm. Considerations of harm need to include potential for overdose, either accidental or deliberate and put in place processes that reduce the opportunities for both.

There is considerable evidence that slow release paracetamol has a higher risk of accidental overdose than ordinary paracetamol and that it is more difficult to treat an overdose with this form than the standard. There is also the capacity for greater consequences of deliberate overdosing with the modified form, particularly as at present it is able to be purchased in large amounts i.e. boxes of 96 tablets.

17 October 2018 — Presentations and Speeches

Transcript: Consumer Estimates, My Health Record Webinar

Watch here: youtu.be/Ttz3eWx6BMU In this final webinar in the series, a panel of health consumers ask questions of a panel of representatives from Government about My Health Record.

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