The Women’s is developing a Diversity Plan to provide a strategic and integrated approach to strengthening our services and support for women from diverse communities. The Plan will includes actions in the areas of reconciliation, diversity and disability.
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Reconciliation
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The Reconciliation Working Committee has developed a Reconciliation Action Plan 2009 – 2011. The Plan details the Women’s activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous women by building community trust in the quality and safety of the health services provided at the Women’s. The Plan aims to develop our Indigenous workforce and integrate orientation, training, accurate identification of Indigenous patients and referral to support services into all areas of the hospital.
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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
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The Cultural Responsiveness Plan aims to build organisational capacity to provide a consistent standard of high quality care that will improve the health and wellbeing of women from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. This Plan is a key component of the Women’s Diversity Plan.
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Disability
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The Women's Disability Action Plan is one component of our Diversity Plan and recognises that women with disabilities face multiple disadvantages, which affect their health, wellbeing and access to health services. The Plan aims to remove barriers to women with a disability enjoying access to high quality health care at the Women’s, and to open up employment opportunities to people with disabilities.
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Call for applicants for Women With Disabilities Reference Group
| The Royal Women’s Hospital (the Women’s) is Australia's largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of women and newborn babies. The Women's has long had a commitment to developing services that are accessible to, and meet the needs of, women with disabilities.
To assist in the implementation of our Disability Action Plan we wish to establish a Women with Disabilities Reference Group.
This Reference Group will strengthen our efforts to overcome barriers to access for women with disabilities and to better fulfil our commitment to being a hospital for all women. The Reference Group will be made up of a diverse and dynamic mix of women with disabilities who understand the barriers to women's health care, have networks into diverse communities and are interested in improving health care at the Women’s.
If you are interested in applying to be on the Reference Group, please download and complete the Expression of Interest form (word 167kb) and return it to Helena Maher, Strategic Adviser - Advocacy and Philanthropy, at the Women’s, by 2 June 2011.
To find out more about the Reference Group, please call the Chair, Tricia Malowney on mobile 0400 640 624 or Helena Maher on 8345 2952.
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