Consumers Health Forum of Australia Inc (CHF)
CHF is the peak organisation providing leadership in representing the interests of Australian healthcare consumers. We work to achieve safe, good quality, timely healthcare for all Australians, supported by the best health information and systems the country can afford.
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 Consumers Shaping Health and healthUPdate - February issues out now8 February 2010Top stories: 2010-11 Budget Submission calls for better dental care and emphasises consumer participation in achieving major reform; Consumers inform Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement; Health Technology Assessment; Australia needs a single ‘principles-based’ Code of Conduct for therapeutic goods; Cataract rebates - finally a resolution; Consumers talk pathology; Keeping Clinical Trials in Australia CHF calls for single Code of Conduct for therapeutic goods13 January 2010Australia urgently needs a single Code of Conduct to ensure health consumers know that medicines and other therapeutic goods they buy have been promoted ethically and deliver the claimed health benefits, the Executive Director of the Consumers Health Forum, Carol Bennett, said today. E-health - CHF submission on the Exposure Draft Healthcare Identifiers Bill 201023 December 2009Submission on the Contribution of the Not for Profit Sector: Productivity Commission Draft Research Report15 December 2009CHF addressed a range of areas raised in the research report, including smarter regulation of the sector, realising funding opportunities for the sector, sustaining the workforce, removing impediments to better value funding of government funded services, and building stronger, more effective relationships for the future. Submission to the Productivity Commission on the Public and Private Hospitals Discussion Draft30 November 2009
CHF members and stakeholders value the availability of robust and comparable data on public and private hospital performance, and note with interest the difficulties faced by the Productivity Commission in obtaining the data necessary to complete its report. CHF strongly endorses the draft findings related to improved data collection and greater consistency of data.
|  Health reform debate - Carol Bennett provides consumer perspective3 February 2010
CHF Executive Director, Carol Bennett, took part in a wide ranging debate on health reform on the ABC Radio National program, Life Matters, today.
She was part of a panel that also included: John Dwyer, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, UNSW: Dr Christine Bennett, Chief Medical Officer, BUPA Australia and John Menadue, Director, Centre for Policy Development.
 CHF Submission to the 2010-11 Federal Budget24 December 2009
CHF addresses a range of areas including preventative health, health funding, expansion of Medicare services, health governance, dental care, access issues for rural and remote consumers, frameworks for health consumer engagement and consumer representation.
 Health Technology Assessment - report on outcomes of consumer consultations16 December 2009
CHF has made a series of key recommendations to the Department of Health and Ageing calling for a more cost effective, efficient, transparent and accountable process for assessing health technology in Australia.
Draft National Pain Strategy15 December 2009
The Draft National Pain Strategy is available for expert and community consultation. CHF is considering a formal submission.
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