5 August 2016 Presentations and Speeches

Health Insurance Summit 2016

Leanne Wells
Can Payment Reforms Give Consumers Real Buying Power? The MyCover Plan
1 August 2016 Report

Patient-centred Healthcare Homes in Australia - Towards Successful Implementation

CHF, The George Institute for Global Health, RACGP, Menzies Centre

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.

26 July 2016 Presentations and Speeches

COTA National Policy Forum Presentation 2016

Consumers Health Forum
Making sure older consumers are at the centre of health care
24 July 2016 Presentations and Speeches

Can PHNs reflect consumer priorities?

Consumers Health Forum
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.
27 June 2016 Position Statements

Australian Labor Party Response to CHF Election Platform

Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party's response to CHF's 2016 Federal election platform.
22 June 2016 Presentations and Speeches

7 Principles of Consumer-Centred Care

Consumers Health Forum
4 June 2016 Position Statements

CHF Appraisal of the Pharmacy Reforms and 6CPA

Consumers Health Forum
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.
2 June 2016 Consumers Shaping Health

Consumers Shaping Health, vol 9, issue 3, June 2015

Consumers Health Forum
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
4 April 2016 Health Voices

Health Voices, Issue 18, April 2016

Consumers Health Forum

Consumer-centred health care in the 21st century

2 April 2016 Report

Putting the Consumer First

Consumers Health Forum, The George Institute for Global Health

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.

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