Earlier this month, PDA presented a webinar on “Fair and Accessible Healthcare”.
This has now gone up on our YouTube channel:
We encourage you to hear from the expert panel of speakers who contributed to the conversation, shared their respective knowledge, experiences and expertise and addressed areas of concern around Australia’s healthcare system and where it is failing those living with physical disability.
Speakers included:
- Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM — Principal Medical Officer, Gold Coast University Hospital Emergency Department; frontline doctor and disability advocate
- Carol Taylor — Lawyer, world’s first quadriplegic fashion designer, and passionate advocate for accessible, patient-centred care
- Mandy Frier — Manager at CheckUP Australia’s ‘Access for All’ disability awareness program; nutritionist, researcher, and lived experience leader
- Dr Yi Yang — University of Melbourne Research Fellow; expert in disability health inequalities and policy impact
- Senator Jordon Steele-John – Greens Senator, disability advocate
Hosted by PDA CEO Jeremy Muir, the webinar tackled healthcare inequalities, the need for policy and training reforms, and how equipment and service accessibility can be improved.
During the webinar, Mandy Frier spoke about the free online course Access for All, developed to improve disability awareness among health providers and increase understanding about the barriers people with disability experience when accessing healthcare. For more information, go to: https://checkup.org.au/what-we-do/online-training/access-for-all/
Senator Jordon Steele-John also put a call out for people to share stories around their lived experiences accessing dental care as people with disability. This will help guide one of his current projects. If you are able to help, please email him at senator.steele-john@aph.gov.au.
We hope that you find the information and discussion around healthcare for people with disability in this webinar useful, informative and interesting.
We will shortly announce our next webinar topic and encourage you to keep an eye out on our socials or to sign up for free membership (pda.org.au/membership) so that you are kept in the loop.
