ASMI hails UK Self Care Week
November 18, 2015
The Australian Self-Medication
Industry has highlighted the
UK’s Self Care Week as a way to
encourage people to take better
care of themselves in partnership
with health professionals, rather
than just being passive recipients of
healthcare services.
Project director for Australia’s Self
Care Alliance, Brenda Davy, said the
initiative showcases the personal
management of minor ailments
and chronic conditions, as well as
preventing lifestyle illnesses such as
obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
“The current model of healthcare
delivery is financially unsustainable
due to demographic changes such
as the ageing population,” Davy
said, adding that this is forcing
governments around the world to
rethink models of healthcare “to
put them on a more sustainable
trajectory”.
She said the Self Care Alliance is
bringing together individuals and
organisations across the health
sector to formulate new models
of healthcare based on the UK’s
approach to increasing personal
responsibility.
“We need to unleash the power
of the consumer, changing the way
health professionals interact with
them and providing systems and
tools to help them do more”.
Davy said the Self Care Alliance
is mobilising Australia’s healthcare
sector to speak with a single
voice, aiming to bring about the
generational change in the health
system necessary to make it more
sustainable as the population ages.
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