Do you have a story worth telling? Do you want to connect with other health consumer representatives and hear about their success, frustration and tips?
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Health Consumers NSW were a partner at the 2017 Patient Experience Symposium in NSW. During the two days of the Symposium, we ran a story-telling workshop for health consumers and we also asked them to tell us their stories on camera. This video is the result of the collected footage and was shown in the final plenary session. Thanks to all the health consumers who came and talked to us!
Maryam Zahid is the Founder and Managing Director of Afghan Women on the Move, a charity that works to provide advocacy, social connectivity through social media platforms, settlement and...
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Maryam Zahid is the Founder and Managing Director of Afghan Women on the Move, a charity that works to provide advocacy, social connectivity through social media platforms, settlement and...
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Maryam Zahid is the Founder and Managing Director of Afghan Women on the Move, a charity that works to provide advocacy, social connectivity through social media platforms, settlement and...
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Tricia is an experienced health consumer representative who can look back on an almost 30-year career of representing patients, their families, carers and the community in South Western Sydney....
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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....
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Maureen Williams is an experienced health consumer representative who has been advocating for patients' voices for 42 years. Here, she tells us how she first got involved in patient...
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Darriea Turley manages a network of local Health Councils in the Far West Local Health District that provides a structure for consumers and community members to participate in health...
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Setchen Brimson is Murrumbidgee Local Health District’s (LHD’s) Marketing & Community Engagement Manager, based in Wagga Wagga. Here, she tells us about the work Murrumbidgee LHD does with health...
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In January 2020, one of our long-standing Board members, John Stubbs, resigned from our Board. We are sad to see John go and hope to see him back and...
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Diana Aspinall, champion of health consumers Health consumers everywhere have lost a true champion with the passing of Diana Aspinall, at age 80. A leading figure in the development...
Read More“Stop this meeting I want to get off” is a tongue-in-cheek video shedding light on the practicalities of engaging and empowering consumers. It shows a sketch that the Health Issues Centre in Victoria uses in their health consumer training. If you have ever sat in a committee meeting and wondered what you were doing there, you will get a chuckle out of this.
