Working together can be complex and challenging. Our Consumer and Community Engagement Model identifies and measures how consumer and community engagement contributes to consumer-centred care.

The Model is an outcome of the WentWest-Health Consumers NSW Joint Consumer Engagement Project. It is intended to be used as a guide for consumers and health professionals to work together effectively.

The Consumer and Community Engagement Report outlines the evidence underpinning the model, the context for developing the model and explains the model itself.

The Consumer and Community Engagement model (pictured, right) looks closely at the types of engagement processes associated with improving consumer-centred care. The model also identifies the necessary infrastructure and inputs that are important for engagement to be effective and sustainable.

We hope that this model provides consumers, communities and health services with clarity and guidance around consumer and community engagement.

We see this model as a starting point and we expect it will be refined and adapted in response to the unknown challenges and innovations that the future will bring.