Health Passport

The Health and Disability Commission invite you to take part in a Nationwide Public Consultation on the ‘Health Passport’ - a document designed to be used by disabled people when using hospital services.

Click on the following link to read a cover letter that explains this initiative and to download the draft copies of the Health Passport document.

http://www.hdc.org.nz/about-us/disability/health-passport-consultation

This is your chance to ‘have a say’ on a document that could improve the quality of health services received by disabled New Zealanders.

Please forward this article onto all your networks, service users and their family members, professional colleagues and other networks as far and wide as possible. You may also wish to provide a link to the above link on your website or post the above link to your social networking sites such as face book, twitter, etc. The commission would also appreciate your assistance in providing hard copies of the documents to people in your network who may not have access to a computer or internet.

The wider the feedback that we receive, the more inclusive the final document will be of the needs of different people.

Please note that the feedback closes on Wednesday, 15 September 2010.