Australia’s updated charter of healthcare rights will reflect contemporary approaches to information, communication, partnership and patient-centred care. This article is published by Croake... Read more
Marie McInerney reports: The mental health system continues to inflict trauma, violence and harm because it regards those it sets out to help as the ‘problem’ to be fixed, not th... Read more
(Intro by Marie McInerney) Making sure that mental health consumers have a voice in their own care, in services and the broader workforce, and in big policy directions like the National Disa... Read more
It’s 20 years since the first people with lived experience of mental illness – a group of four “consumer consultants” in Melbourne – were funded to work in the Australian mental health... Read more
Being a patient can be a disempowering experience, and disempowerment can compromise safety. A reminder of this is a small, hospital-based study done the US a few years ago, which found that... Read more
Dave deBronkart – who is probably better known as e-patient Dave – was a visiting professor in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in the US this year, on the basis of his own experie... Read more
A National Forum on Safety and Quality in Healthcare is underway in Canberra this week. Those attending will today hear today from patient advocate Stephanie Newell about how consumers and h... Read more
Health policy expert Dr Yvonne Luxford writes: Nobody expected a generous budget, and at first blush the health budget is definitely not generous. However, the good news is that the vital ar... Read more
