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Medical Devices Consumer Working Group (MDCWG)

Information on the terms of reference, membership, meetings and initiatives of the Medical Devices Consumer Working Group (MDCWG)

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On 20 August 2019, we held a consumer workshop, bringing together a broad range of consumer and patient representatives to discuss ways of informing and engaging consumers in support of An Action Plan for Medical Devices (the Plan).

Following on from this workshop, a small working group of volunteers formed the Medical Devices Action Plan Consumer Working Group (the Group).

The Group works with us to prioritise, co-design and represent a consumer focus on the Plan strategies by:

  • acting as a sounding board for ideas and/or approaches
  • providing links to relevant stakeholders through their networks, and
  • providing feedback on documents and proposed actions.

The Group met four times between November 2019 and December 2020.

In November 2021, the Group was reinvigorated and renamed the Medical Device Consumer Working Group (MDCWG). Consumer representative memberships increased from 10 to 21 members. The first meeting was held in December 2021.

Terms of Reference

For more information about the purpose and structure of the Group, see the Terms of Reference which was updated in May 2024: 

Membership

Meetings and communiques

A communique will be published here and in the outcomes section below following each meeting.

Initiatives

The Medical Devices Consumer Working Group has collaborated with us on consumer resources, including:

The Medical Devices Consumer Working Group has provided input to our hubs of information for: 

Contact us

Medical Devices Consumer Working Group (MDCWG)
dwg.tga@health.gov.au

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