Health care, can you find it? – in our world-leading, world-class, fragmented system
Australians have one of the most high-performing health care systems in the world. Consumers…
Navigating through the fragmented healthcare maze
Would you get into an aeroplane with a faulty navigation system? In 2015, the…
Enabling consumers to navigate the health system
Australia has one of the best healthcare systems in the world.[1] However, it can…
Care co-ordination – an antecedent to fragmentation in health care
A discussion on care navigation and care co-ordination is inextricably linked to the reality…
Healthdirect – taking the difficulty out of navigating health services
To sail or travel over a stretch of water or terrain, especially carefully or…
Navigating the digital health divide
Have you had one of the 50 million [1] telehealth consultations held during the…
The future of health is patient-partnered – but how do we get there? …. #NavigatingHealth
The CSIRO Future of Health 2018 provides an illustration of how the health system…
Mental health peer navigators
Australia’s mental health system is fragmented. Services are not integrated with one another so…
Lessons learnt from navigating aged care
Australia has struggled to develop an aged care system that is accessible and administratively…
Patient navigation in cancer care
Gail O’Brien was married to the late Professor Chris O’Brien (AO), and played an…
A new program supporting young mothers navigate the health system
Young people today have to navigate a health system that is typically intended for…
Independent patient advocacy
In late 2019 my elderly mother had severe hip pain and was admitted to…
Relationship-centred care and patient navigation
There is increasing recognition that genuinely focusing on the needs and wishes of consumers…
Youth Health Summit – voices for the future
Concerns about health and climate generated young leaders’ calls at this inaugural conference for…
Youth Health Forum – call to action
Young leaders have released a Call to Action to promote a much stronger role…
What makes a youth health Summit?
Luke Catania, the National Coordinator of the Youth Health Forum, talks about the Summit…
What I’ve learned about climate anxiety
I’ve always been concerned about the environment and what humans were doing to it….
The time is now: what do our young people need?
The health of Australia’s young people is crucial to the ongoing prosperity and connectedness…
Can Young People shift the dial in politics?
Time and time again we hear the stereotypes around young people and their lack…
The future of mental health services: what is it without youth voices?
When first asked to write this article I asked myself “why did they choose…
What does the WH&Y Commission have to say about health, wellbeing and research?
Young people are often left out of the health research process. But so many…
Centring young people in pandemic recovery efforts
Young people have been hit hard by the pandemic, and so the Youth Health…
Making mental healthcare accessible for young people in the Northern Territory
I am passionate about improving health outcomes for young people in rural, remote, and…
But is it co-design? And if it is, so what?
This article follows the Youth Health Forum National Summit. A virtual conference on youth…
Addressing the ‘missing middle’: the next challenge in youth mental health care
It’s now well established that adolescence and young adulthood corresponds with the period of…
Exploring health and wellbeing in the Australian Youth Development Index 2020
In 2019, 13 percent of the Australian population were aged 15-24 years. This period…
Consumers shifting gears to drive better health care
Here Health Voices presents the diverse perspectives of participants at the Consumers Health Forum’s…
Jumping the care gap with concrete boots
It’s an inevitable and anxiety-inducing bridge that every young person and their family managing…
A good year for patient leadership
What a good year for the rosesMany blooms still linger there – Elvis Costello…
Consumer engagement: an untapped resource in health
The question I sometimes ask myself when I’m reading anything to do with consumer…
Consumers driving change in health care
What if I said, go to the doctor even when you are feeling good…
What does the future hold for digital health?
No one could have predicted a year like last year. But amongst all the…
Engagement capable organisations – music to our ears!
I’ve spent the past 15 years literally obsessed with stakeholder engagement. First in the…
Building ‘Engagement-Capable Environments:’ Lessons from a pan-Canadian health organization
Canada, like many countries worldwide, has seen rapid growth over the past decade in…
Essential care questions post pandemic
Everyone wants and deserves excellence in healthcare. The last year has exposed both strengths…
Welcome to the Revolution
The enthusiasm, expertise and variety of people and projects at CHF’s Shifting Gears Summit…
BCNA Consumer Leadership – An innovative approach to cancer consumer representative training
Since the year 2000, Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) has run the internationally recognized consumer…
Public online feedback: building connection not just data-collection
There is a growing body of evidence that patients’ experiences with healthcare are a…
Health consumers changing the system – looking to 2031
Have you ever thought about what the health system could look like in 2031?…
We ‘summit’ to know we are not alone!
Having participated in and spoken at the Shifting Gears Summit on March 18 &19,…
Join Us – a new resource connecting all Australians to health research
Australia has world-class health and medical researchers who have been responsible for many life-changing…
“Team Up” moving from participants to co-designers: a serious board game for co-design preparedness
Experience-based co-design (EBCD) is a method for healthcare quality improvement where experiences guide what…
COVID and the plague of ideas
“Lessons for consumers from COVID-19” was the theme we asked our contributors to write…
Partnering with consumers during a pandemic
The voice of health consumers has been influential in shaping Queensland’s effective response to…
Staying in touch while keeping your distance
Among other things, I am a husband, father, son-in-law, friend, colleague and healthcare researcher….
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for improving aged care in Australia
There are lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for improving residential aged care. Around the…
Living guidelines in COVID-19 response: what they mean for the future of Australian healthcare
The COVID-19 pandemic has been characterised by great uncertainty. Even early in the pandemic…
Primary Health Networks supporting the COVID response across Australia
PHNs are local, independent organisations set up by the Australian Government to collaborate with…
Patients belong in all places where health decisions are made
Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t set out to be a feminist ideologue. She simply wanted…
Learn from, not about young people
Dear anon, Don’t take this the wrong way, but I wish you didn’t come…
COVID-19 and equity: A mandate for investment in health promotion and prevention
The Australian public health community has long advocated for increased investment in health promotion…
Better use of our power as consumers to change policy and outcomes for children and young people.
While the theme of this edition of Health Voices is “Lessons for consumers from…
What will be our COVID keepers beyond the pandemic?
I was recently asked three seemingly simple questions about the COVID-19 pandemic and its…
The misconceptions of loneliness
Loneliness is increasingly recognised as an important issue of many developed countries but the…
Learning from lived experiences of chronic disease during COVID-19
At the start of COVID-19, Ashley discovered she was pregnant. As a person living…
Inclusivity in pandemic communication: A health literacy lens
For most of us, coronavirus has meant living with uncertainty, anticipation, and change. By…
Covid-19 and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities: Lessons learned and recommendations for action
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted us all in some way and has contributed to…
Protecting outcomes of Australians living with a rare disease
While there is a large variation among rare diseases, people living with a rare…
How COVID is helping us adjust to a digital health world
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented uptake in telehealth across Australia in…
