Media releases

Your Christmas Donation Helps West Australians Get Healthcare Support

Your donation helps West Australians get the support they need when things go wrong or get too hard to manage aloneEvery year, thousands of people across Western Australia find themselves stuck in a healthcare system that’s complex, overwhelming and often deeply distressing. Some struggle for months
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Dental issues, quality and cost – update on advocacy Oct 2025

This year many of us have been shocked by news reports of consumers having paid up front for extensive and costly dental treatment (often implants) and then before the work is completed their practitioner has stopped practicing, died or been deregistered, leaving consumers out of pocket, in pain and
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Media release archive

17/11/23 Health Consumers’ Council WA welcomes increased COVID-19 health protections in hospitals

31/08/23 HCC welcomes mental health reforms

29/08/2022 Seeking multicultural cancer patients and carers to improve cancer information resources 

26/07/2021  Health Consumers’ Council joins The Great Registration Race for DonateLife Week

27/11/2020 It’s time to change the way we speak about obesity

29/11/2019 Duty of Care or Buyer Beware? TGA response to Shine class action decision

22/11/2019 Vindicated! But justice deferred – Shine class action against Johnson & Johnson

1/05/2019 Health Consumer Excellence Award winners announced 

10/04/2019 Health Consumers’ Council welcomes the Sustainable Health Review Final Report

11/03/2019 Heritage Identification study published by the Medical Journal of Australia