Avant - Your voice your mutual

Your voice in your mutual
As a mutual, we are wholly owned by our members, who are at the heart of everything we do. To ensure that we best serve our members, in 2015 we reviewed the range of formal mechanism through which we engage with our members so that these are best aligned with the future needs of Avant and our members.

Through the process of consulting with members, we realise we have the opportunity to increase our capacity to engage nationally with medical stakeholders through our advocacy function and better harness our members’ local expertise and experience at the state level. We have therefore decided to introduce the following new structure in 2016.
Avant member committees
Avant Mutual Board
Six elected members, governing and setting the strategic direction for Avant. Find out more

Other Avant boards include Avant Insurance Limited and The Doctors' Health Fund Pty Ltd

State Medical Experts Committees
Advising our state claims and legal teams on accepted medical practice and medical issues relating to professional standards. Find out more.
State Member Advisory Groups
The State Member Advisory Groups provide input on issues impacting doctors at a state level and act as a strong voice for members’ collective interests.

The groups include elected directors from Avant’s Board and members from over 20 specialties, to ensure the diversity of member opinions and interests are effectively represented.

In the 2017 financial year, over 70 of our members from across Australia contributed to discussions on a wide range of topics through these groups.

National Advocacy Stakeholder Committee
Bringing together members from some of our partner medical stakeholder groups such as colleges and associations, to provide advice on strategic medico-legal and associated advocacy issues and to allow Avant to drive change on behalf of our members and the medical community. Find out more.
National Doctor in Training Advisory Council
Assisting and advising Avant on issues facing DITs, assisting in establishing and executing membership strategies to support young doctors. Find out more.
National Student Advisory Council
Identifying emerging and existing medical student community issues. Find out more.
Avant National Medical Advisory Register
In order to capture the interest of our wider membership, we have decided to create an Avant National Medical Advisory Register (ANMAR). This will contain all Avant members who have indicated a willingness to contribute to Avant through one of our committees or directly on a relevant issue or topic. In time we expect to create communities of interests from this group that consider specific issues.
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