Health Consumers Queensland

📢 HEALTH CONSUMERS QUEENSLAND IS HIRING ⌛ Applications close 31 October 2025 at 5.00pm (AEST) 👉 We are looking for an Engagement Officer (Projects) to shape and support key projects within the organisation. This role assists with consumer engagement activities, outward communications (including social media), co-ordinates consultancy projects, quality improvement initiatives and assists with the co-ordination of our grants program alongside the General Manager. ✅ Applicants should have: ·      Qualifications in Health Promotion, Communications, Social Science or other relevant qualification(s). ·      Demonstrated experience in consumer consultation and/or community engagement or related roles within the health and/or community and social services sector ·      Sound knowledge of Queensland’s health system ·      Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage people from diverse backgrounds and work collegially in a team environment ·      Demonstrated abilities in communications and digital content development. Health Consumers Queensland is a family-friendly workplace operating in a hybrid capacity with all staff working flexibly from the office in the Brisbane CBD as well as working from home. This is a full-time permanent role, but part-time applications will be considered. 📄 For further information please read the Position Description https://lnkd.in/gyQc-425 Please address your application to Kellie Dwyer, General Manager, Health Consumers Queensland. 👉 Apply at Ethical Jobs https://lnkd.in/gb_BbxFH 👉 or SEEK https://lnkd.in/g2AYueh9

Health Consumer Engagement Workshop, Rockhampton 📆Friday 3 October 10.30am- 1.30pm 📍Learning and Development Centre 📍Lecture Room 1, Rockhampton Hospital. 👥THIS FRIDAY (October 3) Health Consumers Queensland and Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CQHHS) will deliver the CENTRAL QUEENSLAND HEALTH CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP as part of a series of workshops that will inform and shape the next Consumer Engagement Strategy for CQHHS. 📢If you are a current or past member of CQHHS' consumer groups, we would love to see you at the workshop. ✅Please RSVP to [email protected] ℹ️Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gm55qNqt

🔎Seeking a Health Consumer Representative in Queensland to participate in a Patient Transit/Discharge Lounge design review. ⏰ Applications close 5pm Thursday 3 July 2025. If you are a consumer, carer or someone who has supported a person accessing transit/discharge lounges in Queensland Health hospitals and would like to share your experience and insights, you can add your voice to the review of how they are deigned to meet patient needs. The selected consumer representative will work with the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines (AusHFG) team, design consultants, and consumers from across Australia and New Zealand to review and update Health Planning Units Transit Lounge documentation to ensure updated guidelines reflect person-centred, inclusive, and accessible care environments. That will include the incorporation of lessons learned relating to direct experience such as the provision of more accessible and welcoming services that meet the needs of the range of users of the health service regardless of age, disability, gender, culture or background. Feedback can be provided via online meetings and/or email. The revised resource will guide the planning and design of transit lounges across the region. Please apply immediately at https://bit.ly/4lnw8uw (or scan QR code in image below) if you fulfill the requirements to be a consumer representative in this role.

📣 HCQ brings consumer voice to panel discussion on QLD Health Workforce 📅 21 May 2025 from 7.30am, voco Hotel, North Quay 📣 Keynote speaker the Hon. Tim Nicholls, Minister for Health and Ambulance Services HCQ’s CEO Keith Tracey-Patte will add the consumer perspective to a panel discussion at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) meeting on Wednesday 21 May in Brisbane which will turn the spotlight on the pressures facing Queensland’s Health Workforce. Keynote speaker at the event, Minister for Health and Ambulance Services the Hon. Tim Nicholls will also join the panel alongside leaders from across the health services sector to discuss how Queensland will address changes in the population, ageing trends and how people use services to develop a best-in-class, sustainable healthcare workforce to meet future demands for primary care, and other critical healthcare services. Rhonda Morton, HCQ Board Member and Strategic Services Advisor Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, will facilitate the panel discussion which will include Dr Nicholas Yim, President Australian Medical Association Queensland, Noelle Cridland, Health Service Chief Executive Metro South Health, and Carlie Nielsen GAICD, Director of Clinical Services Ramsay Health Care. The event will be hosted by Janine Walker AM, Chair, Metro South Health, and Analise O'Donovan, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Health Group, Griffith University. Find out more and register for the event at https://lnkd.in/gGjGpPqk

FIVE DAYS TO GO! RSVP TODAY. 📢 JOIN OUR FREE INFORMATION SESSION 📅 Online 29 April 2025 10am-11am 👉 HEALTH CONSUMERS QUEENSLAND (HCQ) supports community members to learn more about the health system and get involved as a health consumer representative to have their voice heard! 👉 From understanding your rights as a health consumer to partnering with health services, organisations, and research institutions to improve health care for all Queenslanders, you can make a difference. 👉 The online information session includes time for a Q&A with HCQ and experienced Consumer Representatives from our member network. ❓ Do you have questions for HCQ? Share them in the comments below for our consumer engagement team to review for inclusion in the webinar Q&A discussion. ✅ RSVP to attend by completing the form at https://shorturl.at/JyuuQ #HealthConsumers #HealthcareRights #healthcareinformation #yourhealth

This #WorldCancerDay, we recognise that every cancer journey is unique. We welcome the 2025 theme, "United by Unique," that people are more than their diagnosis—they have individual needs, stories, and challenges. Cancer doesn’t discriminate, but factors like remoteness and socioeconomic status can impact diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. In Queensland, our cancer rates are 10% higher than the national average, predominantly due to higher melanoma rates making prevention and early detection critical. Our work with the health consumer coalition for prevention calls for greater focus and funding of prevention to improve the health and wellbeing of all Australians. Patient advocacy organisations play a vital role in ensuring people receive the right support beyond diagnosis—helping individuals and families navigate treatment, survivorship, and life beyond cancer. A stronger focus on personalised care and prevention is needed to improve outcomes for all. #WorldCancerDay #UnitedByUnique #PatientAdvocacy #CancerSurvivorship #prevention #earlydetection image source: Union for International Cancer Control            

📢West Moreton Health is hiring! Do you want to influence change in the health system and make a difference to the delivery of health services every day? West Moreton Health is inviting qualified professionals with relevant experience to apply for the position of ✅ The Health Intelligence Lead – Regional Health Collaborative who will establish a Health Intelligence Service across West Moreton and Darling Downs regions. The role has a whole of health system remit where integrated data from across primary care, general practice, Aboriginal Medical Services and Health and Hospital Services will be used to enable informed decision making about health system priorities and solutions. 🚘 This position may be required to work across the various Hospital and Health Service facilities (including the Primary Health Network's offices in Springfield and Toowoomba) throughout the West Moreton Health and Darling Downs Health regions. Find out what West Moreton Health is looking for in its ideal candidate at 📄 https://lnkd.in/gH7N9hJ9 #QueenslandHealth #healthinformationsystems #datagovernance #hospitaldatasystems

HCQ WELCOMES NEW BOARD DIRECTORS HCQ is pleased to welcome 3 new directors to its Board, announced at the recent AGM. ✅ Karla Hume is an Ipswich based First Nations strategist and adviser with considerable first-hand and consumer service design experience ✅ Danielle Hornsby, is Executive Director of Allied Health at Townsville Health and Hospital Service and Board chair of selectability; being highly experienced in clinical/governance, and ✅ Rhonda Morton from the Gold Coast, a leader with deep health sector knowledge from organisations including Bond University, Mackay Hospital and Health Service and Cairns Base Hospital. We would also like to thank departing members of the Board Miguel Diaz, John Anderson and Rachelle Foreman who have all shown an unwavering dedication and passion for supporting the consumer voice in healthcare during their years of service. Ann Maree Liddy, formerly Deputy Chair, has been appointed Board Chair and Tracey Porst has been appointed Deputy Chair. Find out more about HCQ’s Board members on our website     https://lnkd.in/gNTAf3xj #QueenslandHealth #QueenslandClinicalExcellence #Consumerengagement

🎄 A HEALTH CONSUMER'S CHRISTMAS WISH LIST 🎄 Experienced Consumer Representative and member of HCQ’s network Georgia Railton-Stewart was recently invited to give a speech at the Statewide Surgical Services Forum on the Future of Surgical Services in Queensland. Georgia is the sole consumer representative on the Queensland Surgical Services Clinical Network Steering Committee and the first consumer to be included on any of the Surgical Services Committees, so the forum provided an important opportunity for the consumer voice to be heard. The audience of almost 200 Queensland Health staff included surgeons, theatre staff, surgical services administrators from various HHSs, and staff from the Healthcare Improvement Unit and the Planning Branch. Undaunted by being the only consumer representative in the room Georgia’s very relatable speech was well received with positive feedback from other speakers and several requests from surgeons for copies to take back to their teams. Georgia also found the forum to be a very positive experience which she was keen to share with the HCQ network. “The rest of the forum was very interesting with some great things already being rolled out in the surgical services space, plus some excellent ideas for future planning that will make for a smoother experience for consumers, including a Patient App that looks very promising,” she said. “It was a great day and I felt very heard, respected and involved in the planning and workshopping that was facilitated on the day. “At the end of the day, I was told that it was the first time most of the people in the room had heard a Consumer Representative speak, so I'm glad what I shared was well received, and hopefully it helps lead to some positive, consumer and carer focused improvements in surgical services.” Read Georgia’s speech, aptly titled A Health Consumer’s Xmas Wish List – 12 days of Christmas Surgical Services Edition 1.0 at https://lnkd.in/g7xUtzT9 #StatewideSurgicalServicesClinicalNetwork #ClinicalExcellenceQueensland #QueenslandHealth

CONSUMER CONSULTATION OPPORTUNITY 📣 Contact us now to have your say. 🖥️ Review communications and referral processes for a new service. 📆 Consultations taking place THIS WEEK 18 and 19 December 2024, and in 2025 on 6 and 7 January. Health Consumers Queensland is partnering with Queensland Health to invite consumer consultation on the development of a new service. The Queensland Virtual Early Medical Termination of Pregnancy Service (QVEMToPS) is in development to offer an alternative pathway for pregnant people who would like to access medical termination of pregnancy services. The new service will not disrupt service pathways that already exist, but it will provide more options, particularly for vulnerable women who may face additional barriers in accessing termination of pregnancy care. ✅ Join a small focus group, or ✅ Request 1:1 consultation Consultation will focus on navigation of the new service online as well as feedback on information provided and content of referral forms. This consultation will not be asking consumers to share personal lived experience with termination of pregnancy services. By participating in this consultation your personal information will not be shared with Queensland Health, and you do not need to join the HCQ network. Everyone who joins the consultation will be remunerated for their time. To JOIN the consultation, complete this form https://lnkd.in/gfdkj26B #HaveYourSay #ConsumerFeedback #VirtualHospital #VirtualHealthServices #QueenslandHealth