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Tell us about your experiences in healthcare systems in SA

People living with disability face significant barriers to accessing healthcare systems ranging from the daily grind of inaccessibility, through to serious harm, injury and avoidable death.

Purple Orange is keen to better understand the experiences of people living with disability with regards to health services in South Australia.  

If you are a person living with disability or supporter, please complete this survey asking about your experience of negotiating healthcare services in South Australia.  This survey consists of 11 questions and we estimate that it might take about 20 minutes to complete. 

You will remain anonymous.  We will not identify your name.

We will compile a brief report from this survey and use this work to inform systemic advocacy,

If you prefer to talk to someone face to face or by phone please email Ellen Fraser-Barbour (ellenf@purpleorange.org.au) OR

Purple Orange:
Phone: (08) 8373 8388
Freecall 1300 857 327
1.Are you:
2.What is your postcode 
3.How accessible is healthcare for you / the person you support?
Not at all accessible
Not very accessible
Somewhat accessible
mostly accessible 
Always accessible 
4.Can you briefly describe an example of inaccessibility in health systems and how this impacted on you/people you support?
5.What are the main barriers you experience when accessing healthcare services? 

(e.g lack of accessible information, regional location & lack of availability of services, judgement and attitudes of healthcare providers)
6.From your perspective, how much knowledge and skill do healthcare professionals have about how to support people with disability?
No knowledge at all
Very little knowledge
Some knowledge
A good amount 
Excellent knowledge
7.How confident are you that health professionals will listen to you/the person you support and respond respectfully and appropriately?
No confidence 
not very confident
somewhat confident
Fairly confident
Very confident
8.If you feel comfortable, please briefly share an example where health professional(s) had misunderstood or made assumptions about you? What happened? what was the impact?
9.What does a good accessible experience in healthcare look like for you?

What helps you to feel safe and supported when accessing healthcare services? (e.g strategies, people, support, physical equipment?)
10.Describe from your perspective what could improve South Australia’s healthcare system for people living with disability?
11.If you are interested in future information or projects please leave your name and contact details