The Centre for Health Communication seeks to impact on health policy not merely through its research publications and government project reports. The Centre also frequently contributes submissions to quality and safety inquiries and health service reviews. This page has links to our most recent government submissions.

Government Submissions

	UTS Centre for Health Communication Submission: “A review of the implementation of the elective surgery targets and national access guarantee and the four-hour national access emergency department target” (2011)
	Response to ACSQHC Discussion Paper: ‘Patient-centred care: Improving quality and safety by focusing care on patients and consumers’ (2010)
	Caring For Older Australians – Productivity Commission Issues Paper (2010)
	Submission to the 2002 Summit 2008: Communicating for safety and quality of care (2007)
	Submission to the Special Commission of Inquiry – Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals: Communicating for safety and quality of care (2007)

Government Project Reports

	Iedema, R. and Ball, C. (2010) NSW Ambulance/Emergency Department Handover Project Report. Sydney: NSW Health & UTS Centre for Health Communication. ISBN: 978-0-9807908-4-9 File link: NSW Ambulance/Emergency Department Handover Project Report File size: 2544Kb
	Iedema, R; Thomas, V.; Mel, M.; Kari, S.; Siwi, L.; Papoutsaki, V.; Waiko, B.; Britton, K: Komuniti Tok Piksa – Integrating Papua New Guinean Highland narratives into visual HIV/AIDS education and prevention materials (2009 – 2011). Proposal Reference: RES-LRG 09-08 File link: Komuniti Tok Piksa – Integrating Papua New Guinean Highland narratives into visual HIV/AIDS education and prevention materials File size: 4396Kb
	Piper D, Iedema R, Merrick E, Perrott B (2010) Experience-based Co-Design Program 2 Stage 1 Evaluation Report – Final Report to Health Services Performance Improvement Branch, NSW Health. Sydney: Centre for Health Communication, University of Technology Sydney. ISBN: 978-0-9807908-1-8 File link: Experience-Based Co-design Program 2 Stage 1 Evaluation Report File size: 4466Kb
	Piper D, Iedema R, Merrick E (2010) Emergency Department Co-Design Program 1 Stage 2 Evaluation Report – Final Report to Health Services Performance Improvement Branch, NSW Health. Sydney: Centre for Health Communication, University of Technology Sydney. ISBN: 978-0-9807908-0-1 File link: Emergency Department Co-design Program 1 Stage 2 Evaluation Report File size: 6225Kb
	Iedema, R., Merrick, E., Piper, D. and Walsh, J. (2008) Emergency Department Co-Design Stage 1 Evaluation – Report to Health Services Performance Improvement Branch, NSW Health. Sydney: Centre for Health Communication, University of Technology Sydney. ISBN 978-0-646-50725-5 File link: Emergency Department Co-Design Stage 1 Evaluation Report File size: 4304Kb
	Iedema R, Merrick ET. HELiCS: Handover-Enabling Learning in Communication for Safety. Sydney: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care & University of Technology, Sydney, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-646-50381-3 Resources and links: HELiCS as a Tool for Ongoing Observation, Improvement and Evaluation of Clinical Handover

Centre’s Annual Reports

2009

2010

2011