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The critical importance of complaint handling is as strong as ever. Being able to raise a grievance or complaint is a fundamental human right. Engaging effectively and respectfully with complaints is about engaging effectively and respectfully with the community and being willing to improve the quality of care.
Compassionate care is central to person-centred care. Along with the safety and cost reductions associated with person-centred care, placing the person at the centre of their care and keeping them informed is the right thing to do.
This Guide is a reference tool to support practitioners in understanding the complex ethical and legal requirements surrounding informed decision-making about healthcare.
Consumer involvement in our care organisations ensures a measurable increase in knowledge and skill, enhances problem-solving, introduces new ways of looking at and doing things; and ultimately gives organisations greater adaptability in a changing environment.
The Experience-Based Co-Design Toolkit provides a convenient reference to equip those working in the health sector with the tools and approaches to bring consumers and health workers together in an authentic and equal partnership to co-design care to deliver an improved experience.
We know that compassion and alleviating pain and symptoms generally feature high on consumers’ wish lists. But do healthcare providers feel that the latter is more useful than the former?
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Most health and human services seek feedback from a formal or informal consumer group. The aged care sector is preparing for mandated consumer input into their organisations from the end of 2023. No-one wants token consumer input. But getting it right can be challenging. What are the key considerations for success?
In recent times, we have heard discourse in the media around unconscious bias – appearing (allegedly) in the banking sector, customer service, academia, or even amongst royalty - and unconscious bias in healthcare has also been reported on the basis of specific research findings.
It has been reported that complaints relating to registered health practitioners increased over the 2021/2022 financial year. Further (and separately), in aged care, there was a total of 2,767 complaints made in the first quarter of 2022 and 2,642 complaints in the second quarter. Both these figures had also trended upwards compared with the corresponding numbers in 2021 (with 2,313 in the first quarter of 2021 and 2,261 in the second quarter).
"It has been 14 years since all governments in Australia signed the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities are still facing barriers to achieving equitable outcomes in health and wellbeing. Despite an abundance of good intentions, healthcare settings are still places where deficits in cultural safety often drive poorer outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people."
