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Table 4 Frequency of reported mechanisms used by health services for consumer partnering

From: The state of health services partnering with consumers: evidence from an online survey of Australian health services

Mechanisms for partnering (based on wording used by respondents)

N of responses to all survey questions on consumer partneringa

Community advisory committee

146

Representative at other committees

124

Surveys/interviews

50

Consumer focus groups

35

Via patient feedback

20

Representative at board

14

Via consumer groups

14

Presented/discussed at other committees

13

Reports to other committees and/or board

11

Policy documentation

7

Regular meetings with consumers

7

Via open forum

5

Discussed at meetings

4

Total number of free text responses

450

  1. aNumber of qualitative responses indicates the frequency of each theme across nine questions related to consumer partnering activities. Some services were engaged in more than one activity therefore responses from services were coded multiple times