HCCA Honorary Life Membership Awards
22 November 2021
Russell McGowan and Adele Stevens were awarded with Honorary Life Membership at the Annual General Meeting on 17 November 2021. This is a special form of membership which is bestowed upon any member who has made an outstanding and significant contribution to the organisation. The purpose of life membership is to recognise members who have […]COVID-19: Impact on Canberra’s Social Fabric Speech by Darlene Cox
13 October 2021
Talk given by Darlene Cox at the ‘COVID-19: Impact on Canberra’s Social Fabric’ online forum on 12 October 2021. I am Darlene Cox, Executive Director at the Health Care Consumers’ Association. I acknowledge I’m on Ngunnawal Country and pay my respects to Elders past present and emerging leaders. The Health Care Consumers’ Association (HCCA) is […]Value Based Health Care Conference by Heather Warfield
30 June 2021
I was privileged to be sponsored by HCCA to attend, via Zoom, the Value-based Health Care Conference (VBHC) held in Perth held on 27 and 28 May 2021. VBHC is a very different way of delivering health care. The goal of VBHC is to improve patient health outcomes while reducing the overall cost of healthcare. Globally, […]Consumer Event Participation Reports: COTA Policy Forum, CHF Summit & National Medicines Symposium
29 June 2021
Some of our members have recently attended a number of different events including the COTA National Policy Forum, the Consumers Health Forum Summit, and the National Medicines Symposium. You can read about their experiences and learnings at these events below. COTA Policy Forum One of our members, Priyanka Rai, attended the COTA National Policy Forum earlier this […]Consumer and Carer Participation in Mental Health Services by Bianca Rossetti
15 June 2021
Bianca Rossetti is the Chair of the ACT Mental Health Consumer Network and member of the Canberra Hospital Expansion Project Consumer Reference Group. Bianca spoke at the Thank You event for Consumer Representatives at the ACT Legislative Assembly on 9 June 2021. Her speech is below: Today I am going talk about consumer participation in mental health. I […]The Value of Consumer and Carer Participation in Health Services by Dean Hewson
Dean Hewson is the Vice-President at the Health Care Consumers’ Association (HCCA) and a consumer representative on a number of digital health committees. Dean spoke at the Thank You event for Consumer Representatives at the ACT Legislative Assembly on 9 June 2021. His speech is below: I’m pleased to be here on behalf of HCCA […]
Consumer Participation in Health Infrastructure Projects by Kate Gorman
Kate Gorman is the Manager of Consumer Participation at the Health Care Consumers’ Association (HCCA) and is also the Chair of the Consumer Reference Group for the Canberra Hospital Expansion Project. Kate spoke at the Thank You event for Consumer Representatives at the ACT Legislative Assembly on 9 June 2021. Her speech is below: I would like […]
Inclusive Regulation – What Does That Mean? by Darlene Cox
12 May 2021
This is the speech that Darlene Cox made at the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) National Combined Meeting on 15 March 2021. Every year Ahpra holds a national meeting to discuss the challenges and responsibilities in health practitioner regulation and encourages cross professional learning, through sharing ideas, innovations and networking to better understand and respond […]Digital Health Record Launch Speech by Dean Hewson
9 February 2021
Address given by Dean Hewson at the Digital Health Record Symposium, 8 February 2021. Thank you Wally for the stirring acknowledgement of country, thank you to Peter O’Halloran and ACT Health for inviting me to say a few words, and thank you all for joining us here today. I would like to also acknowledge the […]ACT Election 2020: In Conversation with Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA (ACT Labor)
2 October 2020
In September HCCA held a series of online (Zoom) events – In Conversation with Candidates. We spoke with the health spokespeople of each of the main parties about their vision for our local health system and response to the priorities HCCA has identified. The first In Conversation event was with Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA, ACT Labor, if you missed it you can watch […]Page 3 of 6