Join the Youth Step Up Step Down Advisory Committee

28 Jan 2021

Applications close at 9am on Monday, 8 February 2021

Are you a consumer with a lived experience of accessing a Youth SUSD service or other child and youth mental health service in Queensland Health? Are you a carer with a lived experience of caring for a person who has accessed a Youth SUSD service or other child and youth mental health service in Queensland Health.

The Mental Health Alcohol and Other Drugs Branch (MHAODB), Department of Health is seeking one consumer representative and one carer representative to participate as equal members on the Youth Step Up Step Down (Youth SUSD) Advisory Committee.

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Join the Queensland Health Website Transformation Advisory Group

20 Jan 2021

Closing date: 9am, Monday 8th February 2021

Queensland Health is seeking two consumer representatives to join its Website Transformation Advisory Group. The representatives will provide consumer perspectives on the transformation project, which includes the following website properties.

Department of Health Departmental information https://www.health.qld.gov.au
Qld Government site Queensland Health public content www.qld.gov.au/health
HHS sites Hospital and health Service sites https://www.health.qld.gov.au/services
Campaign sites e.g. Dear Mind campaign https://mentalwellbeing.initiatives.qld.gov.au
Co-branded sites e.g. BreastScreen Queensland https://www.breastscreen.qld.gov.au

 

Purpose

The purpose of the Website Transformation Project is to deliver a better public health website network for patients, the public, clinicians, staff and other stakeholders.

The purpose of the Website Transformation Advisory Group (“the Advisory Group” or “WebTAG”) is to provide governance, advice and guidance to the project team running the Project within Strategic Communications Branch (SCB).

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First Nations’ Consumer Representative Opportunity: Patient Access Advisory Committee Member

20 Jan 2021

Closing date: 9am, Thursday 4th February 2021.

The Department of Health is providing one (1) First Nations’ health consumer representative the opportunity to participate in the Patient Access Advisory Committee (PAAC) to help establish system-level performance oversight and monitoring of Patient Flow in Queensland Public Hospitals.

Purpose

The Patient Access Advisory Committee (PAAC) is a Tier 3 committee to provide strategic advice to the System Management Advisory Committee (SMC) on issues affecting consumer access to public acute health services and timely flow through the episode of patient care.

The primary functions of the Committee are to:

  1. Provide strategic advice to Queensland Health System Management Advisory Committee (SMAC) on strategies to support system-wide opportunities for improvement in patient flow, with the goal to improve access to care.
  2. Review and refine existing protocols to align to best practice and ensure safety and quality of service delivery is maintained.
  3. Understand key pressure points of patient flow in the system to target service improvement.

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