For advice on these issues, contact your local Community Legal Centre or Women's Legal Service
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Below you will find a list of all the links that have been categorised as “Healthcare Complaints”
A consumer’s first point of contact in attempting to resolve a complaint should always be with the authority which provides the service concerned. This applies to both public and private health care providers.
Organisation Address: 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
Phone: (03) 6223 2500
Link Owner: Hobart Community Legal Service Inc
Also in: Access to Information , Aged Care , Consumer Law , Discrimination , Health
Health services that can be investigated include public and private nursing homes, hostels or supported accommodation houses, public or private hospitals, alternative health care providers, and any other person or place providing a health service. Find out more about health complaints and investigations.
Organisation Address: 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
Phone: (03) 6223 2500
Link Owner: Hobart Community Legal Service Inc
Also in: Aged Care , Health , Health & Ageing
Information about aged care providers, expected standards and how to make a complaint.
Organisation Address: 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
Phone: (03) 6223 2500
Link Owner: Hobart Community Legal Service
Also in: Aged Care , Disability Discrimination , Health & Ageing
Information on the quality and accountability of aged care services
Phone: 1800 020 103
Web Address: https://agedcare.health.gov.au/ensuring-quality/aged-care-quality-and-compliance
Link Owner: Australian Government
Also in: Aged Care , Consumer Law , Debt , Disability Discrimination , Discrimination
Things you need to know as you get older.
Phone: 1800 682 468
Web Address: http://womenslegaltas.org.au/wordy/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Over_50s_Booklet.pdf
Link Owner: Women's Legal Service Tasmania
Also in: Age Discrimination , Consumer Law , Debt , Discrimination , Guardianship
Thinking about IVF? Here are some more things to think about.
Phone: 1800 682 468
Web Address: http://girlsgottaknow.com.au/relationships/children/fertility-treatments/
Link Owner: Girls gotta know
Also in: Health & Ageing , Women's services
Terminating a pregnancy through medical channels is not a crime. Although there is still a stigma attached to abortion, fertility and birth control, Tasmanian legislation validates women’s rights, and the right to choose.
Organisation Address: 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
Phone: (03) 6223 2500
Link Owner: Hobart Community Legal Service Inc
Also in: Abortion , Health , Health & Ageing , Support Services , Women's services
The Tasmanian Health Complaints Commissioner is an independent officer (currently also the Tasmanian Ombudsman).
Organisation Address: 86 Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Phone: 1800 001 170
Web Address: http://www.healthcomplaints.tas.gov.au/
Link Owner: Ombudsman Tasmania
Information about the role and complaints handling procedures of the Office of the Health Complaints Commissioner.
Organisation Address: 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
Phone: (03) 6223 2500
Link Owner: Hobart Community Legal Service Inc
Also in: Aged Care , Health , Health & Ageing
