The role includes advocacy, raising awareness around health services and gaps and providing feedback to health providers for improvement This page is administered by the volunteers from the Griffith LHAC. This page is for people to find out more about the health services available in our region. We ask that all comments and posts are respectful and relevant to the service. BE RES
PECTFUL
Griffith LHAC reserves the right to remove any posts or comments which:
• are likely to be offensive to other readers
• are considered offensive, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, bullying, discriminatory, hateful, racist, sexist, infringes copyright, constitutes a contempt of court, breaches a Court suppression order, or is otherwise unlawful
• discusses methods of su***de or self-harm
• discusses drug usage in an unbalanced way, e.g. leaves out the negative effects
• contains unhelpful advice, such as blaming a person for their depression
• is racist, sexist or discriminatory
• is obscene, or uses graphic sexual language
• breaches any copywrite laws
• is defamatory, or overly critical of services or organisations which provide help to others
• for any other is likely to cause harm / distress to other people reading the story
• are posted for commercial purposes, and
• promote inaccurate, inappropriate or harmful health advice
Where possible, users who post such comments will be contacted offline and advised that their comment has been removed. If the person continues to make inappropriate posts and comments they will be blocked from the page. Any information that is uploaded to the page is not confidential, and Griffith LHAC shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to others without limitation. MENTAL HEALTH AND DUTY OF CARE
In certain circumstances, if a post raises concerns about a person’s safety, we may try to contact you to check that you and/or others are safe. If there are significant concerns, we may need to pass on your contact information to authorities who can help protect you and/or others, such as “AccessLine” or the police. Our preferred way to do this would be to support you to seek help. We are obliged to try to protect you and/or others if the information you submit tells us that:
• you are being seriously hurt by someone else
• you are thinking of seriously harming yourself, and
• someone else is being, is likely to be, seriously hurt by you or another person. Please note that the Griffith LHAC recognises that sometimes people need immediate help and support. This page cannot provide you with specific counselling, crisis services or support. If you need immediate assistance please call “AccessLine” on 1800 800 944. If your health need is not urgent please see your local GP or call healthdirect to talk to a Registered Nurse on 1800 022 222 (24 hours). Griffith LHAC can take no responsibility for comments on our page, or any interactions fans may have on or off our page. Thank you for your courtesy and cooperation. COMPLAINTS PROCESS
We ask that out of courtesy you direct your complaints in the first instance to the organization to address. Speak with the business or individual first to try resolve the matter before posting or contacting the LHAC to follow up for you. PLEASE NOTE : NO foul language, NO personal attacks, NO derogatory comments towards any members or their posts, We can all have our say without being rude or offensive. Bullying in any form will see that post removed without warning.
