For consumer organisations
Health Consumers NSW can help consumer organisations and groups:
- Provide training staff and health consumers about how to improve your ability and capacity to engage directly with health services
- Providing training to staff and management about how to improve your organisation’s engagement with members and consumers
- Working in partnership to design and implement tailored responses to your consumer and community engagement needs
- Providing resources, tools and information on consumer and community engagement
- Providing informal support and information
- Promoting your initiatives through our communication channels.
The following additional services are available to members of HCNSW:
- Brokering strategic opportunities for health consumers from your organisation to be part of appropriate boards or committees
- Invitations to member briefings and updates on relevant health initiatives and policies through our members-only CEO forum
- Free subscription to our regular publications and newsletters.
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For health services
Health Consumers NSW can assist health services in developing and improving their consumer and community participation through:
- Providing training to staff and health consumers representatives about consumer engagement
- Working in partnership to design and implement tailored responses to your consumer and community engagement needs
- Recruiting and training health consumer representatives to sit on your boards or committees
- Providing resources, tools and information on consumer and community engagement
- Providing informal support and information.
The following additional services are available to our members:
- Help you find a consumer representative for your boards and committees through the request-a-rep service
- Invitations to forums, workshops, seminars and webinars
- Free subscription to our regular publications and newsletters