28 February 2024 — Blog

RACGP backs calls to fund CHF’s Understanding Medicare – Understanding your health campaign

The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) has thrown its support behind the Consumer Health Forum of Australia’s (CHF) calls for the Australian Government to fund public education that fully explains the Medicare system to the public.  The Understanding Medicare – Understanding your health ...
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1 February 2024 — Blog

Medicare at 40: where to now?

CHF has continued to advocate strongly for health consumers as Medicare celebrated its 40 th anniversary on 1 February 2024. In the media and directly to Health Minister Mark Butler, CHF CEO Elizabeth Deveny has called on the Australian government to fund CHF to deliver public education on how best...
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28 August 2023 — Blog

Vale Kate Moore, a leader of her times, leaving a lasting legacy

Vale Kate Moore, 20 July 1944 - 9 August 2023 This month, we learned that former CHF CEO, Kate Moore, had passed away after a short illness. Kate was CEO of Consumers Health Forum from 1992 to 1999. Kate left a profound legacy on the status of health consumer influence, as a driving force,...
10 July 2023 — Blog

Queensland CHF R&R SIG members in action at Cairns forum

Three CHF Rural and Remote Special Interest Group (CHF R&R SIG) Queensland members attended in-person the Queensland Rural and Remote Clinical Network (QRRCN) annual forum in Cairns on 7 June 2023. Another Health Consumers Queensland (HCQ) member, Maureen Woodward, came from Far Western...
22 June 2023 — Blog

Your health in your pocket: The MyHealth App

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has been continually developing My Health Record to meet the needs of Australians, and these improvements wouldn’t have been possible without consumers like yourselves testing, providing feedback, and advocating for what consumers need. Now, My Health...
19 June 2023 — Blog

CHF Board Renewal

A paper prepared by the Chair of the CHF Board, Tony Lawson (Input also provided by Ms Jo Watson, Deputy Chair, CHF Board and Chair, Governance Committee) Most contemporary Boards irrespective of them being for profit or not for profit, ensure they have a sound succession plan. Those that do not...
15 March 2023 — Blog

MBS Review Advisory Committee - Letter to CHF CEO

Dr Elizabeth Deveny CEO, Consumers Health Forum of Australia Dear Dr Deveny I write to you today to invite you to stay up to date with the work of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Advisory Committee (MRAC). The MRAC was established as an independent, clinician and consumer led non-...
18 August 2022 — Blog

Digital health - we have come so far, but still so much to do

I stood down as CEO of the Consumers Health Forum in August after 7 years. During those years CHF has nurtured important collaborative relationships with numerous organisations. Our capacity to ensure the consumer voice is heard and represented in Government health policies has been dependent on...
4 August 2022 — Blog

Why be a Director on the CHF Board?

What a good question! The Consumers Health Forum of Australia Ltd (CHF) is the national voice for health consumers. In 1988 when CHF was first established with government funding The Hon Neal Blewett, Minister for Community Services and Health, in a speech to CHF said – “Without informed,...
7 July 2022 — Blog

What matters most in health care?

If Australians need evidence of our national health crisis, we should look no further than the Census. Eight million of us, nearly one-third of the entire population, now have a long-term health condition. The question we must ask ourselves as a nation is whether we’re willing to accept this high...

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