How to participate

If you would like to directly contact your local health service please go to the Victoria's Public Hospital System website to find the contact details of your service.

To find a consumer, carer or community group you might like to use the resource directory Finding Consumers and Carers: A Guide to Sourcing Consumers, Carers and Community Members for Collaborative Health Service Improvement produce by the Victorian Quality Council.

‘Doing it with us not for us: Participation in your health service system 2006-09’

During 2004-05 the Department of Human Services worked in partnership with a Reference Committee and health service providers, consumers, carers and other community members to develop the policy ‘Doing it with us not for us - Participation in your health service system 2006-09: Victorian consumers, carers and the community working together with their health services and the Department of Human Services’.

The policy was launched in February 2006 and a Participation Advisory Committee to the Department of Human Services was convened in July 2006 to advise on the implementation of the policy across the Victorian health care system.

Doing it with us not for us: Participation policy 2006-09 (572kb, pdf)

Key initiatives developed from the policy by the Participation Advisory Committee include:

• the Participate in Health Conference: Making it Work held to facilitate sharing of experience and commence gathering the evidence on participation
• $200,000 to fund four Evaluating Effectiveness of Participation projects in Victorian health services. See guidelines below and click on the above link for an overview of the projects:

Evaluating Effectiveness of Participation Guidelines (204kb, pdf)

The work to be undertaken in implementing the policy and its initiatives is mapped on the year planners provided below.

Policy implementation plan 2006-07 (28kb, pdf)

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