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Covid-19 Forum #2 video

2020-05-14T11:22:53+10:00

Covid-19 community forum #2: COVIDSafe App and Telehealth Almost 300 people registered for an online forum on hosted by Health Issues Centre on May 7 to discuss the COVIDSafe App and Telehealth. The event intended to give community representatives of at-risk groups such as the elderly, people with disabilities and those with co-morbidities - as well as the general community - an opportunity to feed into the discussion. A video of the plenary session is linked below.

Covid-19 Forum #2 video2020-05-14T11:22:53+10:00

Will Technology Save us?

2020-08-27T17:07:57+10:00

Forum #2 summary: Health Issues Centre consumer online forum series Trust, necessity and efficacy were the hot topics of the Health Issues Centre forum on the COVIDSafe App and Telehealth this week. Almost 300 people registered to attend the event, which was held online. Health Issues Centre CEO Danny Vadasz said the level of interest in the event demonstrated the need to provide alternative ways of engaging with the community during the Covid-19 Crisis. “A message that came through strongly from event participants is the need to involve the community in decision-making that affects them,” Mr Vadasz said. “At the peak [...]

Will Technology Save us?2020-08-27T17:07:57+10:00

All a matter of perspective

2020-05-14T11:22:43+10:00

Taking a different view It’s interesting how looking through the same eyes, you can see different things, according to Kristiina Siiankoski. By day, Kristiina works as a health policy advisor for a government department. But out-of-hours she volunteers her time running a peer support group for a little-known condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser – MRKH for short. This experience helps her see her day job in a whole different light, reminding her what it’s like to be an everyday person encountering the health system. “MKRH isn’t very common – it affects one in 5000 females – and it’s the nature of the condition [...]

All a matter of perspective2020-05-14T11:22:43+10:00

Medical devices causing more deaths than thought

2020-07-03T09:34:16+10:00

Medical devices have revolutionised medicine and improved the lives of millions. But as Health Issues Centre investigations into pelvic mesh demonstrated, they also have the capacity to inflict irreversible damage when something goes wrong. HIC has long argued that there are a variety of systemic failure points in Australia’s Quality and Safety regime that virtually guarantee that the pelvic mesh catastrophe may be repeated in other devices. Now, an article in the New Yorker magazine provides evidence that problems with devices are widespread. The USA’s FDA received around 16,000 reports of deaths associated with medical devices in 2015 but a study [...]

Medical devices causing more deaths than thought2020-07-03T09:34:16+10:00

Covid-19 Community Forum: Final Report

2020-04-28T09:21:33+10:00

Who Makes the call? Download full report here: Who Makes the Call - COVID-19 Forum Report Executive Summary  The grim reality of rationing intensive care resources as a result of COVID-19 has recently been witnessed or predicted in several countries (e.g. Italy, USA). Whilst social distancing measures introduced within Australia to ensure our health system is not overwhelmed have thus far been successful, there is considerable (and understandable) anxiety among those with complex conditions and vulnerabilities that they may be denied intensive care should the situation escalate. If that occurs, multiple patients will be subject to triage and clinicians will be in the invidious position of having to make difficult life and death choices. If these choices are not guided by social as well as clinical [...]

Covid-19 Community Forum: Final Report2020-04-28T09:21:33+10:00

Life in isolation

2020-04-28T09:21:18+10:00

It's not all beer and jigsaw puzzles Listening to politicians talk about Australia’s pandemic lockdown you could be forgiven for thinking that a nuclear family with two kids and a dog is representative of a “typical” Aussie household. Much of the media coverage and political commentary has focused on exercising with family members, activities to keep the kids entertained and spending time together as a family unit. But what about the approximately 5% of people who live in a share-house with friends or strangers and are separated from their loved ones? Or the whopping one quarter of Australians who live alone? [...]

Life in isolation2020-04-28T09:21:18+10:00

Involving consumers in the COVID-19 response

2020-08-27T16:51:23+10:00

Tipsheet - Involving consumers in the COVID-19 response It has never been more important than now, during the COVID-19 crisis, to include consumers in strategic and operational decisions. This document is intended to support health services and policy makers to work with consumers and carers using the principles of human-centred design to ensure strategies and operational plans that respond to COVID-19 meet consumer needs and encourage maximum consumer-buy-in. Download our tipsheet here HIC Tipsheet on Involving Consumers Novel Coronavirus Covid19  

Involving consumers in the COVID-19 response2020-08-27T16:51:23+10:00

Covid-19 Forum video

2020-04-28T09:20:57+10:00

Covid-19 community forum on ethical triage Over 170 people participated in an online forum on hosted by Health Issues Centre on April 2 to discuss ethical triage during the Covid-19 Crisis. The event intended to give community representatives of vulnerable groups such as the elderly, people with disabilities and those with co-morbidities an opportunity to feed into the discussion about triage decision-making. Many of these groups fear they may be the first to miss out on scarce resource allocation if hospitals become overwhelmed. A video of the plenary session is linked below.

Covid-19 Forum video2020-04-28T09:20:57+10:00

No time to lose our ethical nerve

2020-08-27T17:08:10+10:00

Over 170 participants in Covid-19 forum Over 170 people have participated in an online forum hosted by Health Issues Centre to discuss ethical triage during the Covid-19 Crisis. The event was held on April 2 to give community representatives of vulnerable groups such as the elderly, people with disabilities and those with co-morbidities an opportunity to feed into the discussion about triage decision-making. Many of these groups fear they may be the first to miss out on scarce resource allocation if hospitals become overwhelmed. CEO of Health Issues Centre, Danny Vadasz acknowledged the enormity of the challenge facing the group. “Today [...]

No time to lose our ethical nerve2020-08-27T17:08:10+10:00

Covid-19 and ethical triage – a consumer forum

2020-08-27T16:52:07+10:00

Covid-19 and ethical triage – a consumer forum At some point in the near future – possibility within days – Australia will run out of ICU beds for patients critically ill with Covid-19. When that moment comes, our medical professionals will be forced to make unenviable decisions about who will receive intensive care treatment and who will miss out. Some states have begun developing a framework to decide how patients will be triaged but Health Issues Centre is concerned that clinical guidelines focus strongly on survivability. This means the most vulnerable groups are at greatest risk of being unable to access [...]

Covid-19 and ethical triage – a consumer forum2020-08-27T16:52:07+10:00

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