Our commitment to Aboriginal health >>
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What is Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) health? >>
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Why is Aboriginal health important? >>
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Diversity and Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee >>
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The Diversity and Aboriginal Health Committee Members >>
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Monitoring >>
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External Relationship & Useful Links >>
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For more information or to provide feedback >>
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Our commitment to Aboriginal health:
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Peter Mac values Aboriginal heritage and believes that consumers and staff have the right to fair and equal treatment.
It is important that Peter Mac works to engage with consumers and staff on issues relating to Aboriginal health to ensure that the care and services are equitable, accessible and valued by all.
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What is Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) health?
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- Means not just the physical well-being of an individual
- Refers to the social, emotional and cultural well-being of the whole Community in which each individual
- Achieve their full potential as a human being thereby bringing about the total well-being of their Community
- It is a whole of life view and includes the cyclical concept of life-death-life
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Why is Aboriginal health important?
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Aboriginal communities face a number of challenges when accessing main stream services. Cancer and chronic disease account for around 70% of deaths in the Aboriginal community. Therefore it is important that all hospitals to take part in working to improve the health of Aboriginal communities and the health of the Nation. Peter Mac is committed to ensuring that all communities have equitable access to cancer health care.
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Diversity and Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee
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Peter Mac is committed to providing high quality cancer care for all patients. the 'diversity and Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee' was established, to ensure that the needs of diverse and Aboriginal communities are being met.
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The Diversity and Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee Members:
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Chair:
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- Director, Quality & Organisational Development – Clinical Governance Unit
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Staff representatives
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- Cancer Support Nurse
- Clinical Nurse Co-ordinator
- Community Engagement Coordinator
- Pastoral Care representative
- Head, Social Work Department
- Human Resources Department representative
- Inpatient Nursing representative
- Language Services Co-ordinator
- Manager, Volunteer Services
- PeterMac @ Home representative
- Health Information Service representative
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Monitoring
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On a regular basis the Diversity and Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee report to:
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- Community Advisory Committee, to ensure that the activities of the committee meet and address the needs of our patients and consumers
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- Clinical Governance Committee
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- Operations Committee, this is to ensure that the work of the Committee is in line with the strategic direction of the organisation
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- Providing annual reports to the Department of Health, to ensure that we are working within Government guidelines.
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External Relationship & Useful Links
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A number of organisations representing our diverse consumers assist us in providing suitable services and information to consumers and staff; and to continually improve our service to meet the high expectations of all our consumers.
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For further information about these organisations click on the links below.
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For more information or to provide feedback
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If you would like more information on the Diversity and Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee or if you would like to provide the Committee with feedback please feel free to contact the Consumer Engagement Coordinator.
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Amrit Dhillon, Consumer Engagement Coordinator
Telephone: 03 9656 5249
Fax: 03 9656 1459
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Email: amritpal.dhillon@petermac.org
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