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- Category: 2025 Federal Election
- Category: Blog
- Meet your HCCWA team: Jen Rawson
- Position filled: Executive Assistant role
- Consumer Voices Drive Change: A Win Against Predatory Dental Practices in WA
- Dental issues, quality and cost – update on advocacy Oct 2025
- Meet your HCCWA team: Aimee Riddell
- The Productivity Commission has released an Interim Report into delivering health care more efficiently
- Housing as a health issue: Homelessness Week
- What will the new bulk billing incentives mean for consumers?
- Listening and learning in the East Kimberley
- Your voice at the table: HCCWA’s recent ministerial meetings
- High Specialist Fees: The Grattan Institute Report has identified some interesting solutions.
- 2025-26 Budget “The No Surprises Budget”
- Meet your HCCWA Team: Jenni Dlugi
- Evelyn Le’s literature review to identify the barriers that are faced by LGBTQIA+SB people in accessing healthcare in Western Australia: intern from the McCusker Centre for Citzenship at UWA
- Health services are under pressure around the world – here’s how you can help in WA
- Executive Director update May 2025: the critical need for consumer voices
- Meet your HCCWA Team: Qistina Taufiq
- Meet your HCCWA Team: Bronwyn Ife
- World immunisation week: are you up to date with your vaccinations?
- Highlighting consumer interests with the new WA ministerial team
- Harmony Day is a missed opportunity
- Celebrating multiculturalism, inclusiveness and equitable participation in WA
- Employment opportunity: Individual Advocate | part-time | on-site
- A long awaited win in sight for transparency on health costs
- Long Covid Awareness Week 10 to 15 March 2025
- Meet your HCCWA Team: Chrissy
- Health consumer priorities in the WA state election
- State election – let’s look through a health lens
- Health consumers and two elections…
- Employment opportunity | Project and Program Support Officer, full-time
- Why we choose to keep our office open on the Australia Day public holiday
- Addressing inequities in WA Healthcare: building a fairer system for all
- Senior-level Consumer Representative position opportunity at the Reproductive Technology Council
- Job – Advocacy Program Officer, closing date 2 December 8am
- Job – Advocate/Senior Advocate, closing date 2 December 8am
- Job – Systemic Advocacy Engagement Lead, closing date 2 December 8am
- You are your loved one’s best advocate – and Health Consumers’ Council is here as back up
- Through the Decades – 2000s
- Sepsis Awareness Day 2024 – Our Story
- Join our team – Aboriginal Engagement Officer, part-time job, applications close 9 September
- Crafting a Meaningful Acknowledgment of Country
- Through the Decades: 1990s
- An exciting opportunity to join the HCC Board – seeking Expressions of Interest for two Management Committee (Board) vacancies
- Digital Health Series – Interoperability
- Join our team – Marketing and Communications Coordinator, part-time job, applications close 19 August
- Exploring healthcare across WA – East Kimberley
- Acknowledging Country: Where Workshop Proceeds Go
- Learning from the past, looking to the future – will you join us?
- Join our team – Project and Program Support Officer, full-time job, closing date – 8am Monday 8 July 2024
- Join our team – Office and Executive Support Manager part-time job, closing date – 8am Monday 1 July 2024
- Join our team – Individual Advocate part-time job, closing date – 8am Monday 1 July 2024
- Celebrating 30 years of Health Consumers’ Council
- Digital Health Series – Patient Portals
- Reflections on the Digital Health Festival 2024
- Strengthening Reconciliation Post-The Voice Referendum: RAP and Acknowledgment of Country
- Navigating the Path Together: Insights from the Cancer Services Plan Consultation Report
- The Importance of Acknowledging Country
- Opinion: It’s time for full transparency on who’s making money out of our healthcare
- Sharing WA consumer and lived experience perspectives nationally
- Digital Health and the Electronic Medical Record – February 2024 Update
- Stay out of politics? Unfortunately, we don’t have that luxury
- Advocating for consumer rights as we live with COVID
- 2023 in review
- COVID health protections in hospitals – return to masks
- The Voice to Parliament – a health consumer lens
- Expression of Interest – Join the HCC Management Committee (Board)
- Righting injustices won’t be easy – Disability Royal Commission report
- Consumer and carer representative awarded Honorary Fellowship at RACP
- A Tribute to Kate Moore
- Women’s and Newborns Hospital relocation – HCC advocating for consumer voices
- Advocating for consumer perspectives through committees
- It shouldn’t be this hard to be heard…
- Long awaited positive changes in reproductive technology law
- It’s time for community power – the power to persuade
- The Federal Budget was announced this week – so what’s in it for health consumers?
- National Health Reform Agreement – how health is funded by the Federal and State governments
- Interested in integrated care? Time to get interested in interoperability…
- Rapid review – Federal budget health announcements
- Executive Director Announcement
- Encouraging a Strong WA Consumer Voice in Medicare Taskforce Report
- Stepping forward with confidence into 2023
- Sustainable Health Review – focus on delivery
- Consumer participation payment – HCC process change
- Supermarkets like casinos?
- Rapid review of the Independent Governance Review with a consumer/lived experience/community lens
- Consumer/Lived Experience Conference report – International Congress on Obesity 2022
- The time is now!
- Health consumers’ feedback on digital health “Future for healthcare in Australia…” workshop
- Connecting and communicating consumer perspectives on cancer care in WA
- A wild reflection from digital health summit
- What the HCC Engagement team have been up to in Djilba (August-September) 2022
- Engagement Officer, L4 – full-time
- Consumer update on Sustainable Health Review workforce recommendations
- Position statement – Roe vs Wade decision in the US
- Relationships and compassion essential for great care
- Putting the public back in public health
- Health consumer stories driving positive change
- Community and connection – how peak bodies pivoted during COVID-19
- Experts by experience – mental health peer support
- Feedback and complaints – How and why you should share your experiences
- The art of compassion in healthcare
- Championing the patient experience
- Digital Health – where are we at?
- CroakeyGO – Walking and talking for collaborative health content
- Communication and kindness: Using my voice as a consumer and carer
- Breast Implants – national recall
- World Patient Safety Day
- Improving engagement practices – people with disabilities share their feedback
- Rebecca’s Story
- Palliative Care – or Quality of Life Care?
- Why am I here? Because Informed consent…
- A day at HCC
- Reflections of a Health Consumer Advocate on Social Marketing
- My Health Record Webinar 1 – Privacy and Security – Key Takeaways
- Senate Inquiry into Pelvic Mesh – A Scandal of International Proportions
- Perth Children’s Hospital Parking
- Life with a chronic health condition – what is the consumer experience?
- Staying Safe at Home – Patient’s Own Medicines
- The Surprising Truth About Youth Mental Health that Everyone Should Know – Guest Blogger: Jacinta Balestra
- How do you know about your rights in health care when you have come from a country where human rights may not be recognised?
- Complementary Therapies in Cancer Care
- Cancer Patient Empowerment
- My Grandson the gift: A new world of unconditional love & care
- PMH Staff Morale at Crisis Point – Consumer Perspective
- Celebrating people who make a difference…
- Patient Experience is the Human Experience…
- International Mesh Awareness Day – 1st May
- Bright Future for ‘Let’s Talk Culture’ Series
- World Tuberculosis Day: Prevention Better Than Cure
- How you can help support quality healthcare for all
- Vote for your health this Saturday
- Be optimistic, a second opinion can save your life!
- Can you see past the ‘Cultural Lens’?
- My Health Record. Your Say.
- Telehealth, valuable, affordable & life saving for patients
- Volunteering good for mental health
- Press Ganey – what’s it all about?
- Cancer Community Conversation Forum: After cancer treatment ends… Where to from here?
- Women’s Health – Am I normal?
- World Hepatitis Day
- After cancer treatment ends – Where to from here?
- Step Forward – Together
- Thieves target Perth hospital patients
- Patient Experience Wrap Up Day Two
- Patient Experience Wrap-Up Day One
- EMER: How consumers & clinicians can improve patient experiences in Hospital Emergency Departments
- Slim chance of losing lots of weight
- Patient Experience Week is Launched!
- Your Say on Cancer WA
- Pap smear costs- a storm in a teacup?
- The cigarette packet that stops you smoking
- Wasted – did you watch this?
- Welcome to the Health Consumers Council Blog!
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