Parent and Carer Advisory Group
What is the Parent and Carer Advisory Group?
The Parent and Carer Advisory Group (PCAG) is the peak consumer advisory group for parents and carers whose infants, children and/or adolescents utilise services at Child and Adolescent Community Health and Perth Children’s Hospital & Neonatology.
What does PCAG do?
PCAG brings the diverse perspectives and lived experiences of being a parent or carer into high-level clinical and corporate projects at Child and Adolescent Community Health and Perth Children’s Hospital & Neonatology through advice, insight and direct input.
The PCAG meets monthly. Its main duties are to:
- Support shared decision making in direct care
- Identify consumer issues
- Champion the role of lived experience representatives
- Provide parents and carers’ perspectives on service and strategic priorities
- Be involved in design and delivery of staff education and training
- Provide a link to other community groups
For more information about the Parent and Carer Advisory Group email CAHS.Consumers@health.wa.gov.au
Who can join the PCAG?
Parents or carers of infants, children and adolescents who:
- Have been patients at Perth Children’s Hospital or Neonates at King Edward Memorial Hospital; or
- Visited a community Child and Adolescent Community Health service (child health nurse, school nurse, immunisation clinic, or the Aboriginal Health Service); or
- Are eligible to access any of the above services.
Goals and Achievements
Recent achievements
PCAG's biggest achievement in 2023-2024 has been advocating for improved patient meals at Perth Children’s Hospital.
The PCAG identified the need for more food choices, individual portion control and the importance of flexible mealtimes. CAHS has demonstrated its commitment to consumer experience and is planning to introduce a meals on demand service in collaboration with consumers. The PCAG look forward to supporting better access to food for parents and strengthening links with Child and Adolescent Community Health over the next year.
In 2024 PCAG are focused on planning a consumer led project as actions from the CAHS Consumer Engagement Strategy.
Raise an issue
If you have an issue you would like the Parent and Carer Advisory Group to consider, please complete this online form.
Apply to join the Parent and Carer Advisory Group
You can apply at any time although you will only be contacted once a space becomes available.
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