Excellence in Practice: Voices for Better Care
At the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the Centre), we are working to make health care better for people with intellectual disability.
People with intellectual disability often face different health challenges, but too often, they don’t get the care they deserve.
This podcast is for healthcare professionals who want to improve their practice when working with people with intellectual disability.
In each episode, hosts Ricky Kremer and Raylene Griffiths speak with experts, healthcare professionals, and people with lived experience. They share real stories and practical advice to help you build your skills and confidence.
Each episode explores a key topic in health care, showing what good care looks like—and what still needs to change.
Better care starts with better understanding. By combining lived experience with expert insight, this podcast supports you to deliver more inclusive, respectful, and effective care.
If you want to give better care, and help make health care fairer for everyone—this podcast is for you.
Follow the podcast to join us as we work together to improve health care for people with intellectual disability.
Excellence in Practice: Voices for Better Care
Challenging Bias in Health Care for People with Intellectual Disability | Part 2
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Unfair attitudes or assumptions can influence how people are treated in healthcare. It can mean that people with an intellectual disability sometimes get worse health care.
Biases aren’t always intentional, but they can have serious, even life-threatening consequences. It is important for healthcare professionals to be aware of these biases and learn about how to make sure everyone is getting the right care.
This is Part 2 of this episode. In this part, we will be speaking to Rachel Browne, who will share the story of her son Finlay Browne, who tragically passed away after not being able to get the care he needed in the health system.
In Part 1, of this episode, we spoke to Dr Jessica Smith, who shared stories and experiences about bias in healthcare and how healthcare professionals can challenge them to provide better care for people with intellectual disability.
Excellence in Practice: Voices for Better Care is a podcast by the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the Centre).
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Your hosts for this episode are Ricky Kremer and Raylene Griffiths.
This podcast includes artwork by Emily Crockford at Studio A.
To contact us about the podcast please email: podcast@downsyndrome.org.au
The Excellence in Practice: Voices for Better Care Podcast is intended for healthcare professionals, and the comments are of a general nature. The views, information or opinions expressed by individuals in these podcast episodes are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Centre.