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 […]ACT Election 2020: In Conversation with Shane Rattenbury MLA (ACT Greens)
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 second In Conversation event was with Shane Rattenbury MLA, ACT Greens, if you missed it you can watch the full recording here or […]
ACT Election 2020: In Conversation with Vicki Dunne MLA (Canberra Liberals)
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 final In Conversation event was with Vicki Dunne MLA, Canberra Liberals spokesperson for Health […]
HCCA’s Priorities for the 2020 ACT Election
14 September 2020
We welcome the announcement from the Labor Party to increase the number of doctors and nurses (see https://www.actlabor.org.au/blog/act-election-announcements/400-nurses-doctors-and-health-professionals-for-the-act/). We know that demand for publicly funded health services continues to grow and we need funding to match population increase and the complexity of our health care needs We have called on all parties to commit to greater […]ACT Election Forum – Community-based Health Care
4 September 2020
On 28 August 2020 HCCA co-hosted the ACT Election Forum on Community-based Health Care with the Capital Health Network and the University of Canberra. The panel consisted of representatives from the all the major parties with ACT Health Minister, Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA from ACT Labor, Leader of the Greens and the current Minister for Mental Health, Shane Rattenbury […]Make the Most of Your Appointment – Telehealth or Face-to-Face
29 April 2020
Telehealth is the name given to health care that happens over the phone or via video with you and your health care practitioner. To get the best outcome from a health care appointment and especially if it is telehealth there a few things you can do before, during and after the appointment. Before the appointment: […]Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference 2019 by Kathryn Briant
16 March 2020
This was an interesting and inspiring conference that was well worth attending. As an international conference, there were speakers from many different countries presenting on a wide range of topics relating to overdiagnosis. Overall I have been thinking about 3 main messages from health consumers that arose from the conference presentations: We want our quality […]Keeping Consumers at the Centre of Medicines Use in Australia by Kathryn Briant
3 March 2020
A summary of a presentation made at the ISIUM Conference (Bangkok -January 2020) – People Improving the Use of Medicines: What We Know and Don’t Know Kathryn Briant, Health Care Consumers’ Association, Canberra ACT A case study – Anna’s Story Anna is 70yrs old, married and a loving grandmother, with a non-English speaking background. […]Page 3 of 5