A word with… Kris Tucker

Kris is a health consumer representative with lived experience of stroke and a near-death experience. Nine years after his stroke, he is involved in several health consumer representative roles. They include sitting on the Western Sydney Local Health District Consumer Council, being the consumer Co-Chair of the NSW Health ‘Elevating the human experience- Culture and staff experience’ enabler group and sitting on the ‘Emergency department patient experience program’. We’ve talked to him about his experience and his journey to becoming a health consumer representative.