Please download, read and share this 62-page report compiling our coverage from the first Australian and New Zealand conference on consumer leadership and experience in healthcare: The Shift... 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
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
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
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
