The recent Shifting Gears Summit hosted by the Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) highlighted the changing role of consumers in health care, moving from a tokenistic “charity and volu... Read more
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are major issues in Australia and globally, as has been highlighted in Croakey’s TOO MUCH of a Good Thing series, published as a collaboration between W... Read more
Hopefully you caught some of Croakey’s coverage of the recent Consumers Health Forum of Australia Shifting Gears Summit, particularly Jennifer Doggett’s action packed reports from days one a... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The coronavirus pandemic and Royal Commissions into aged care and mental health show that we do not yet have a way of navigating the health system in a way that conn... Read more
If one measure of a good conference is the questions it raises, the conversations it engenders and the relationships it fosters, the Consumers Health Forum of Australia Shifting Gears Summit... Read more
The Consumers Health Forum’s Shifting Gears Summit got off to a fast-paced and impressive start yesterday, as you can see from Jennifer Doggett’s musical mix-tape inspired wrap below. The Cr... Read more
Over the next two days (18-19 March) Croakey will be covering the Shifting Gears summit – the first Australian and New Zealand conference on consumer leadership and experience in healt... Read more
Australia is a long way from meeting its targets for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination, according to The Guardian’s vaccine tracker project, and medical leaders are also raising conc... Read more
What would our health systems look like if consumers were in the driving seat – if consumer experiences and leadership were enabled to seamlessly transform health and social care to be... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Confusion around what doctors can and can’t say about COVID-19 vaccines has left the door wide open for misinformation and scare campaigns about the vaccination roll... Read more
