This masterclass will give young people (18-30) the tools they need to share their lived experiences with peers, organisations and other stakeholders in a safe and respectful manner. This is an issue that often comes up when working with young people, they will rush to talk about their lived...

The Consumer 101 workshop is the first in the YHF Masterclass Series. This foundational class will provide young people (18-30) with an understanding of: the role of health consumer advocates the rights of consumer advocates and health consumers in general who the major players are in the health...

CHF Members Policy Forum 2022 Everything you wanted to know about wellbeing budgets but haven't had time to ask. There is growing international interest in how countries measure progress beyond economic growth, with a greater focus on citizens’ wellbeing and quality of life. Australia is adopting...

Imagine getting access to Australia’s leaders and making a real difference! Let CHF give you the best chance of success but you have to be quick!! Applications are closing on October 5 to be part of the Australian Government’s new Australian Youth Council which will give young people the chance to...

We are delighted that the new Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon. Mark Butler MP, joined us to discuss future plans for health in this webinar for consumers, members and stakeholders on 5 August 2022. Members and consumers were invited to propose questions to aid the discussion on the...

Emerging Health Technologies in Australia: Developments in automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and more Emerging technologies such as automated decision-making (ADM) and artificial intelligence (AI) are being increasingly applied within healthcare contexts. However, media coverage tends to...

The role of health communication in patient safety and quality of care Communication in health care is a major quality and safety issue. Every day in Australian hospitals, miscommunication causes avoidable critical incidents - patients die, are harmed or receive the wrong treatment because of...

The Primary Health Care Reform Summit was co-convened in May 2022 by the PHN Co-operative and Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF). This page will no longer be updated (as of 20 June 2022). The Primary Health Care Reform Summit Roadmap report is available here . For the latest information on...

How will health policy and delivery change after the election? What health measures are the major parties promising to deliver? Who might be the new Minister for Health, and what might they want for health policy? How might a hung Parliament affect health measures? How can CHF and consumers...

The Voice of Australian Health Consumers The launch of the preliminary results from the latest Australian Health Consumer Sentiment Survey The Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) hosted this important webinar on Monday 28 March 2022 to coincide with the release of the latest Australian Health...