Central to all consumers health and well being is the individual ability to have inclusive, equitable access to accurate, evidenced based, easy to understand information and support. This helps YOU determine your approach to the treatments and services YOU access for your health management.
Ensuring YOU have access to accurate, independent information and advice backed by evidence that is easy to understand and relevant to YOU is a huge challenge. This is especially the case when it comes to complementary medicines such as vitamins, herbs, foods, and other supplements. It is also really important for YOU to have a clear understanding of how these complementary medicines interact with other treatments you may have been prescribed AND be comfortable discussing these with your health care team. Unfortunately, sometimes discussing YOUR use of complementary medicines with your health care team can be…difficult so you simply…don’t.
Musculoskeletal Australia and UnityHealth are on a mission to change that! To provide easy to understand information that has undergone in-depth clinical research and is evidence based that YOU can access to help you understand and discuss complementary medicines and your use of them in relation to your musculoskeletal health.
UnityHealth is focussed on supporting a better understanding of the role of Integrative Medicine in an individuals’ health journey. For the last 15 years, UnityHealth has partnered with the University of Sydney, School of Pharmacy, to support health care professionals in their knowledge and understanding of herb/supplement/food-drug interactions. It has during this time, created an extensive database housing over 1450 complementary medicine interaction reports.
In an exciting extension of the IMgateway program, UnityHealth and Musculoskeletal Australia are exploring opportunities to adapt the tool so that is suitable for consumer access and use.
Throughout April 2024, Unity Health and Musculoskeletal Australia will be conducting 3 virtual focus groups.
Following the completion of the focus groups, UnityHealth and Musculoskeletal Australia will review the information gathered and use this to inform the next steps in the development of a Consumer IMgateway platform.
Focused on having a REAL IMPACT to support consumers, consideration will be given to achieving some of the following outcomes:
If you answer ‘YES’ to the following questions, then we want YOU for one of our focus groups:
If the answer is YES, please follow the links below to complete our pre-registration questionnaire and to register your interesting in attending one of our upcoming focus groups. Places are limited, so please register today!
Focus Group One: Tuesday 16 April 10.00am-11.00am (AEST)
Focus Group Two: Wednesday 17 April 12noon-1.00pm (AEST)
Focus Group Three: Thursday 18 April 4.00pm – 5.00pm (AEST)