HealthWest Response to Policy

Victorian HACC Program Position Paper Triennial Plan and Expenditure Priorities 2012-2015

HealthWest Cover Letter and Response, December 2011

Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2011-2015

HealthWest Cover Letter and Response, October 2011 

Victorian Alcohol and Drug Strategy, September 2011

HealthWest Partnership response, September 2011

Dept of Health & Ageing Medicare Locals Discussion Paper, 10 November 2010.

HealthWest Cover Letter and Response
Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association - AHHA Response
General Practice Victoria - GPV Response

Dept of Health & Ageing Proposed Primary Health Care Organisation Boundaries, 2010.

HealthWest Partnership Response, September 2010

Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Potential for Developing Opportunities for Schools to Become a Focus for Promoting Healthy Community Living, 2008.

HealthWest Partnership Consultations

response to policy

Responding to policy

HealthWest Partnership held consultations in July 2009 for workers and service providers from a range of sectors to provide comment on this parliamentary inquiry. Organisations represented at the consultations included those that work closely with schools in delivering and supporting health promotion programs across the Western metropolitan region of Melbourne:

  • Brimbank City Council
  • Centrelink – Multicultural Services
  • DAS West – Youth Outreach Team
  • Djerriwarrh Health Services
  • Foundation House
  • Gamblers Help Western
  • HealthWest Partnership
  • Heathdale Neighbourhood Renewal
  • ISIS Primary Care
  • MacKillop Family Services
  • Norwood Association
  • School Focused Youth Services (Maribrynong & Hobsons Bay)
  • Western Region Health Centre
  • Women’s Health West
  • Wyndham City Council

View the Inquiry website for more information on the Terms of Reference, Submissions and Transcripts of Evidence. An Inquiry report is due in July 2010.