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- Executive Director update May 2025: the critical need for consumer voices
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- Highlighting consumer interests with the new WA ministerial team
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- Long Covid Awareness Week 10 to 15 March 2025
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- Celebrating 30 years of Health Consumers’ Council
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Encouraging a Strong WA Consumer Voice in Medicare Taskforce Report
- Stepping forward with confidence into 2023
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- 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
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- Position statement – Roe vs Wade decision in the US
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- A day at HCC
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- Senate Inquiry into Pelvic Mesh – A Scandal of International Proportions
- Perth Children’s Hospital Parking
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- 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?
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- My Grandson the gift: A new world of unconditional love & care
- PMH Staff Morale at Crisis Point – Consumer Perspective
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- International Mesh Awareness Day – 1st May
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- Patient Experience Week is Launched!
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