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Consumer Directed Care – What will it mean for me? Western Linkages Regional Forum Mon 14 Nov, 10.00am – 2.00pm City of Charles Sturt Civic Centre, 72 Woodville Rd, Woodville.

Consumer Directed Care enables people who receive services and their Carers to have greater control over the design and delivery of the services they receive.

Consumers, Carers and Service Providers are invited to come and hear about the current ways that services in the West are utilising Consumer Directed Care Principles to increase flexibility and maximise consumer control.

Program includes an overview of Consumer Directed Care and will showcase current service models including ACH, Resthaven, Uniting Care Wesley and the Disability sector. Importantly presentations will include Consumers / Carers of those who are receiving Consumer Directed Care and service providers.

Guest presenter Dr Heather Waddy TQEH Neurologist and Carer will speak about Consumer Directed Care and Dementia.

Click here to register or go www.westernlinkages.org.au and follow the links. Bookings are also available by phone: 8440 6737.

There is no cost for this forum.

Download the flyer.

National Conference 22-23 March 2010

This national conference over two days will explore the emerging agenda of consumer-centred health care.

It is an event not to be missed for anyone with a passion for reforming our health system so that consumers and their families are at the centre of the system – in practice as well as in rhetoric.

Speakers include

• Christine Bennett, Chair, National Health and Hospital Reform Commission
• Ian Hickie, Executive Director, Brain and Mind Institute, Sydney University
• Just Stoelwinder, Chair, Health Services Management, Monash University
• Maxine Drake, Health Consumers’ Council of WA
• Siegried Drews, Web2Care, Consumer-Directed Care Management
• Philip Davies, Health Systems and Policy, University of Qld
• Barry Welsh, Ministry of Health, New Zealand
• Enrico Coiera, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, UNSW
• Coralie Wales, President Chronic Pain Australia
• Russell McGowan, Health Care Consumers Association ACT
• Di Batterham, Westgate Health Co-operative Ltd
• Angela Mackenzie, Paediatrician, Royal Children’s Hospital Vic
• Bruce Rumbold, Palliative Care Unit, LaTrobe University

Key themes include

• Commonwealth reform initiatives: making change happen
• Organising and empowering health consumers
• Medicare Select: policy design and opt-in health plans
• Self-care and self-management in health
• Consumer-directed aged care
• Consumer-centred innovation in mental health
• Consumer-centred innovation in drug and alcohol rehabilitation
• Consumer-centred systems
• Consumer-centred funding arrangements
• Chronic illness consolidated budgets
• Capitation-based payment systems
• Health brokers, care co-ordinators, health info-mediaries
• Community engagement in health reform
• Partnerships between practitioners and consumers

Who Should Attend?

• Health consumers and self-help groups
• Carers and family support organisations
• Health providers and practitioners
• Health services and community sector organisations
• Health researchers and analysts
• Health funds
• Corporates with an interest in better health care
• Governments and policy makers

The venue is Angliss Conference Centre in Melbourne’s CBD, corner of LaTrobe and Kin Streets, close to public transport and a range of accommodation options.

Click here for the program.

Click here to register.