Publications

ACT Health: Review of Elective Surgery Access Patient Information

Published: 2015 Health Directorate Health Literacy/Patient Information Quality and Safety in Health Care

HCCA understands that improving elective surgery access is a very difficult task, but one that is of great importance for consumers. We consider that the consumer’s right to access, safety, communication and participation to be extremely relevant when addressing the issue of elective surgery.

ACT Health: Greater Flexibility in Prescribing Controlled Medicines

Published: 2015 Health Directorate Medicines Quality and Safety in Health Care

We are broadly supportive of the proposed items for discussion, however we feel the discussion paper is quite vague and it is difficult to get a sense of what the new draft standards will look like and how closely they will resemble the draft Controlled Medicine Prescribing Standards that were…

ACT Health: ACT Alcohol Tobacco & Other Drug Strategy

Published: 2015 Health Directorate Quality and Safety in Health Care

The Health Care Consumers’ Association welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the ACT Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Strategy 2016-20. We recognise the importance of this strategy for health consumers and the ACT community.

ACT Health: Canberra Sexual Health Fact Sheets Batch 2

Published: 2014 Health Directorate Health Literacy/Patient Information

HCCA provided feedback on two batches of sexual health factsheets for Canberra Sexual Health Centre.

ACT Health: Canberra Sexual Health Fact Sheets Batch 1

Published: 2014 Health Directorate Health Literacy/Patient Information

HCCA provided feedback on two batches of sexual health factsheets for Canberra Sexual Health Centre.

ACT Health: University of Canberra Public Hospital Service Delivery Plan

Published: 2014 Health Directorate Health Infrastructure Health Service Planning

HCCA made a submission to the ACT Government regarding the Service Delivery Plan for UCPH. We had extensive consultation with our members on the future provision of health services in Canberra both through public forums and from individual members and membership organisations.

ACT Health: Section 2 of the RACC & UCPH Models of Care Report

Published: 2014 Health Directorate Health Service Planning

The Health Care Consumers’ Association (HCCA) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on current RACC services. The information was collected in writing and through telephone and face to face interviews with HCCA members.

ACT Health: Draft ACT and Southern NSW Local Health District Cancer Services Plan 2014-2018

Published: 2014 Health Directorate Health Service Planning

HCCA welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the ACT and NSW Health District Cancer Service Plan 2014 -2018. In preparing for this submission we consulted with our membership and also held a consumer consultation including a public consultation held in collaboration with ACT Health on the 10th of September…

Commonwealth Department of Health: After-Hours Primary Health Care Review

Published: 2014 Primary Health Care

HCCA welcomes the opportunity to provide input into the Review into After Hours Primary Health Care Services. Our response is informed by consumer consultation for two recent bodies of work: our response to the Senate Inquiry into Out-of-Pocket Costs and a recent project with ACT Medicare Local, completing a comprehensive…

Australian Senate: Select Committee on Health

Published: 2014 Primary Health Care

HCCA is very pleased that the Senate Select Committee on Health has been established. Health, or being in good health is important to everyone and influences how we feel, function and participate in the community. The concepts of ‘health’ and ‘ill health’ must be understood as complex. As well as…