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Thought Leader Series: Improving the patient voice in the Australian health system, Ann Single
- 2022/10/25
- 再生時間: 30 分
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Ann Single
Patient Voice Initiative
Improving the patient voice in the Australian health system
In this episode, RCA Chief Executive Richard Vines speaks to Ann Single about:
- The limitations of Australia’s Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process
- How and why the HTA process needs to be framed from a patient perspective
- Australia’s perception of ‘value’ as it applies to health versus other areas like defense
- The need to embrace uncertainty and speed up patient access to cancer treatments
- Why she finds HTA fascinating and why she’s optimistic about the HTA Review
- What she’s learned from 20 years of working with patients
- Improving the patient voice in the Australian health system
- Why she moved from journalism to science communication
More about Ann Single
Ann is Coordinator of the Patient Voice Initiative, an association that works towards improving the patient voice in the Australian health system. She has more than 20 years of experience in developing policy and practice in patient involvement in health technology assessment, or HTA. Ann is Chair of the HTAi Interest Group for Patient and Citizen Involvement in HTA and has been selected as a consumer representative on the Australian Government’s HTA review.