CHF welcomes the opportunity to provide a response to the review of Australia's Disability Strategy 2021-2031

The current Disability Strategy recognises that good health is a fundamental requirement of a good life and has included health and wellbeing as a key outcome area. CHF’s response primarily focuses on this outcome area.

Achieving health equity requires health services and information to be accessible and inclusive for all Australians – including people with disabilities. The disability community has consistently called for improved disability awareness and accessibility across the healthcare system and this must be prioritised within the Disability Strategy.

At the heart of CHF’s policy agenda is consumer-centred care. Importantly, CHF would like to emphasise the need for a diversity of people with disability to be central to the design, implementation and evaluation of all aspects of the Disability Strategy, including this review.