About the National Meeting
The 2019 Choosing Wisely Australia National Meeting, hosted by NPS MedicineWise, was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday 30 May.
Keynote speaker

Professor Trish Greenhalgh
Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of OxfordMaster of ceremonies

Craig Reucassel
Speaker, writer and comedianConference report
Read the full conference report from the Croakey Conference News Service
Abstracts
- Read the oral and poster abstracts presented at the National Meeting
- See the digital posters
Keynote presentation: The challenges of spread and scale-up: implementation science, complexity science and social science
Professor Trish Greenhalgh
Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow
Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford
Insights from the Better Care Victoria Scaling Collaboration
Dr Douglas Travis
Chair
Better Care Victoria Board
Reducing the noise to engage consumers and referrers to Western Health Medical Imaging
Julia Firth
Operations Manager Medical Imaging and Pathology Contract
Western Health
Helping people to choose wisely: A pilot study of methods to engage consumers in health decisions across health literacy levels
Danielle Muscat
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
University of Sydney
Tailoring the use of opioids on discharge from hospital
Adj A/Prof Matthew Anstey
Intensive Care Specialist and Co-Director of ICU Research
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth
Chair
Choosing Wisely Australia Advisory Group
Colonoscopy and Australian healthcare services - changing the standard of care wisely
Alice Bhasale
Senior Project Officer
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Yes Wee Can: better urine sample collection for young pre-continent children
Dr Jonathan Kaufman
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Moving past the panic – healthcare staff responses to disinvestment: A systematic search and qualitative thematic synthesis
Deb Mitchell
Manager, Partnerships and Service Design
Monash Health
Evaluating the impact of the Choosing Wisely radiation oncology recommendations using the Victorian Radiotherapy Minimum Data Set
Wee Loon Ong
Clinical Research Fellow
Austin Health
Event Outline
Registrations open
Welcome to Country
Official Opening: Conversations for changing behaviour
Keynote Presentation
Award Presentation
Morning tea
Sustaining the Choosing Wisely movement
Lunch
Resources and toolkits available to support Choosing Wisely activities
Lightning presentation series
Event wrap up and next steps – how to get involved
Networking drinks
5 Questions
5 questions to ask your doctor or other healthcare provider to make sure you end up with the right amount of care.
2020 Choosing Wisely Australia National Meeting
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, and with the safety and wellbeing of our meeting attendees, presenters, staff and suppliers as our highest priority, we have unfortunately had to cancel this year’s Choosing Wisely Australia National Meeting. This was a difficult decision, as the National Meeting is an important component of the Choosing Wisely Australia initiative, however in the circumstances we have made the decision that we are best placed to plan to meet again in 2021.
2018 Choosing Wisely Australia National Meeting
The 2018 Choosing Wisely Australia National Meeting was held on Wednesday 30 May at the National Convention Centre Canberra.