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ACT Government: Concessions Review Consultation
Published: 2016 Quality and Safety in Health Care
HCCA recognises the ACT context of current fiscal pressures and budget constraint in reviewing expenditure on concessions in the region, however we urge you to continue to look at these concessions through a lens of social inclusion, equity and equality. We are supportive of a streamlined approach to concessions in…ACT Health: Feedback on the Consent & Treatment Policy
Published: 2016 Health Directorate Quality and Safety in Health Care
Overall there is support for the amalgamation of policies relating to informed consent and consent to treatment. There were particularly strong comments around the need to strengthen the consumer focus in the policy. There was concern that the policy did not adequately interpret the changes to legislation.ACT Health: Feedback on Draft Restraint of a Person Policies
Published: 2016 Health Directorate Quality and Safety in Health Care
HCCA provided input on this policy in 2014 and are happy to see that some changes have been made in response to our feedback, including references to the National Safety and Quality Standards 2012, and notably details around the auditing and reporting of restraint processes, including RiskMan data seem to…Independent Hospital Pricing Authority: Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2017-18
Published: 2016 Health Service Planning Out-of-Pocket Costs Quality and Safety in Health Care
HCCA's Submission to the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority's Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2017-18.Providing Clinical Health Services in an Off-Campus Environment Policy
Published: 2016 Canberra Health Services Primary Health Care
Where care is delivered in the homes of consumers there is a balance to be struck between the needs of staff to be safe and recognition that the care setting is the person’s home and this needs to be respected. We appreciate that this policy focuses on how to manage…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: 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: 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: Patient Information from Gastroenterology Unit
Published: 2015 Health Directorate Health Literacy/Patient Information Quality and Safety in Health Care
In preparation for this feedback we circulated these documents to our members who have had a recent experience with gastroenterology, have an interest in this area or have an interest in health literacy and patient information. The feedback provided is the collated responses to each document. We would like to…ACT Government: Expenditure Review of the ACT Concessions Program
Published: 2015 Quality and Safety in Health Care
HCCA welcomes the opportunity to provide input into ACT Government Concessions Review. HCCA recognises the ACT context of current fiscal pressures and budget constraint in reviewing expenditure on concessions in the region, however we urge you to continue to look at these concessions through a lens of social inclusion, equity…Page 9 of 13