As the peak body and voice for all health consumer representatives in our Statewide network, we strongly recommend that consumers invited to engage or be involved with health services, research institutions, or other health entities should be remunerated for their contribution and reimbursed for expenses.
The NSW Ambulance Service is currently designing their community engagement frameworks and plans and are planning a Patient Service Charter. They are looking for people who have used the ambulance service and would like to be involved.
Last year, we asked you what do you, as patients and carers, think about the big change to the availability of telehealth for many medical consultations. Now we are publishing the results of this consumer-led study about navigating telehealth. Join us for a results briefing in May!
The Sydney Medical School (SMS), University of Sydney, is recruiting additional members to their Consumer Engagement Advisory Group. The Consumer Engagement Advisory Group advises on consumer issues for the Doctor of Medicine (MD) Program (what is taught to medical students). Apply now!
Health Consumers NSW (HCNSW) congratulates Ms Susan Pearce on her appointment as Secretary of NSW Health.
Health Consumers NSW (HCNSW) congratulates Ms Susan Pearce on her appointment as Secretary of NSW Health.
We are 10! Celebrate with us and hear more about our decade of lent ears, passionate voices, helping hands, bright minds and generous hearts.
For people who can’t be vaccinated against COVID-19 for medical reasons, or who are vaccinated but who build a weaker immune response to the vaccine due to their condition, the experience of re-opening NSW will likely be very different to the one of healthy, fully vaccinated people.
We talked to Alexandra Martiniuk, a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Sydney, about what to expect.
Health Consumers NSW recognises that there is a diversity of opinions about the issue of voluntary assisted dying. We recognise that changes to the law are, ultimately, a matter for society and legislators.
Are you a health consumer who has an interest in the professional standards that health practitioners need to meet when they look after their patients? Would you like to help Ahpra and National Boards make the code easier to understand and better able to protect the public? Ahpra is seeking Expressions of Interest to attend a virtual, NSW focus group/consultation session on the shared Code of conduct for health practitioners.