The Consumer Council creates a stronger consumer voice for safety, quality and innovation in health across the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) and the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC).
The Consumer Council has the following objectives and responsibilities:
- provide advice on effective strategies for promoting partnerships with consumers to address patient safety priorities
- provide advice on strategies to raise community awareness and facilitate engagement in patient safety and quality improvement
- advise the ACI and CEC Boards on consumer representation within the respective organisations
- contribute the consumer voice to the strategic priorities of the ACI and CEC
- lead, facilitate and optimise effective consumer representation within and across all levels of ACI and CEC
- provide guidance as to how ACI and CEC support the health system to partner with patients in line with the National Standards.
Membership
Co-chair - Laila Hallam
Co-chair - Tomas Ratoni
Adam Johnston
Bradley Rossiter
Coralie Wales
Craig Cooper
Harry Iles-Mann
Kelly Foran
Luke Escombe
Michael Morris
Zoe Fernance