She was speaking to Croakey after being presented with a lifetime achievement award at an awards night to mark the 20th anniversary of the mental
health consumer workforce in Australia.
Not exact matches
As part of its work, the Team is seeking ideas from the public at large, the
health care
workforce, and experts in
health care delivery and insurance, economics, business,
consumer rights and other relevant areas.
• Conference calls for a National Rural and Remote
Health Workforce Plan that strategically links specific and generalist skills with emerging fields of study to provide high - quality team - based care to
consumers and support for practitioners in rural and remote areas.
Our members are professional
workforce organisations across the spectrum —
health service providers such as RFDS, the key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
workforce organisations, important
consumer groups such as Country Womens Association andthe Isolated Children Parents Association, reflecting the importance of encompassing all the elements contributing to
health and well being.
As one would expect there are still large gaps but the sentiment is clear — assistance with PATs, MBS top - up and flexible
workforce options are all ideas floated today that have the potential to deliver better
health to rural
consumers.
Viv Miller, director and founding member of the conference, said
consumer voices had been essential from the event's very first year and were now a defining element of the mental
health space in Australia, both at a policy level and within the
workforce.
The conference will focus on finding better ways to respect and strengthen the voices of
consumers and peers in mental
health, and will feature some innovative thinking and practice on how to build a peer
workforce, including in acute settings.
This online training program was developed with the Parent - Infant Research Institute (PIRI), in consultation with the beyondblue National Perinatal Depression Initiative (NPDI)
Workforce Training and Development Committee, as well as
consumer and carer representatives, and other
health professional experts.