Consumer Advisory Committee Chair S Report

Board

Agenda Item 7.2: Consumer Advisory Committee Chair’s Report

Board

Agenda Item 7.2

Consumer Advisory Committee Chair’s Report

Meeting: 10 August 2017

Meeting

The second meeting of the Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC) was held by teleconference on Friday 4 August 2017. An apology was received from one member.

Items of Business

The Committee members provided their annual Declarations of Interest and these were distributed to all members. The Chair asked two members to clarify items on their declaration to the Committee and gave members the opportunity to ask questions.

The Committee noted:

• An overview of the Agency’s achievements in the first year of operation;

Members noted the achievements document and no comments were provided at the meeting. Members were asked to provide any additional comments within the week.

The following updates were provided to the Committee to assist their thinking in the design of the Guiding Principles and Consultation Documents:

• An update on the National Digital Health Strategy;

Members noted that they would receive advice and the public document most likely by close of business that day after the COAG meeting decision announcement.

• An update of Release 8 – Medicines, Diagnostic Imaging, Pathology – a consumer perspective;
• An update and high level overview of the Stakeholder Engagement Framework;
• An update on the Agency Quality Framework;

The Committee noted that the Engagement and Quality Frameworks were highly relevant to the Committee’s advice to theBoard.

• An update on the My Health Record Expansion Program – consumer strategies;

The Committee noted the importance of the timing of its advice to the Board in relation to the My Health Record Expansion milestones;

• An update on co-design approaches; and
• An update on the Board and Advisory Committee calendar for 2018.

The Committee progressed the work on the Guiding Principles document for the Board and the Committee Consultation Plan as per the Committee functions under The Rule, both of which contain the member input from the inaugural first meeting on 14 March 2017.

The purpose of the Guiding Principles is to provideprinciples against which Agency initiatives and activities can be assessed in terms of their consumer aspects. The Guiding Principles also inform the Board in its approachwhen setting direction on topics about which it has sought advice from the Consumer Advisory Committee.

Members agreed to progress the finalisation of the Guiding Principles document over the next three to four weeks with the aim for the Guiding Principles to be presented to the Board at its October 2017 meeting.

ITEMS for BOARD

• The Committee noted that the Engagement and Quality Frameworks were highly relevant to the Committee’s advice to theBoard; and
• The Committee noted the importance of the timing of its advice to the Board in relation to the My Health Record Expansion Program milestones.

CLEARED BY / Name / Stephanie Newell
Position / CAC Chair