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The Australian media is currently running a campaign against secrecy, called ‘Your Right to Know’ On Monday 21st October every newspaper in Australia published a

Do government handouts work? Even when designed with the best intentions? I’m sorry but the answer is always … No. Not for left wing causes

Nurse training has been taken out of hospitals and putting it into expensive, out of touch universities, at the expense of basic patient care.

Endless keyboard clicks The promise of ‘easy to use’ Electronic Health Records has evaporated. Instead, hospital wards echo with the angry pounding of keyboards. Thanks

Confused children being drawn into a world of private profits A recent investigation into UK private hospitals have revealed that two fifths of them, have failed

Eliminating errors, securely managing payments, at minimal cost “At the Melbourne Senior Entrepreneur meetup group on Wednesday 18th October, two guest speakers broke the topic

A book about alcohol and drug fuelled sexism in many tech startups A series of stunning revelations have been made in a book published early

You are more likely to see a unicorn, than an Australian hospital using modern technology Some major hospitals are still running departments on DOS. Many

How Silicon Valleys obsession with success led to the biggest financial scandal since Enron Who is the young Stanford grad with long blond hair, a

Parents of children with type one diabetes don’t sleep well When children are born, parents don’t foresee spending their nights waking up every two hours,

Complementary Alternative Therapies (CAM) were once laughed at by Western medical groups as scientific fraud. Today they are accepted as the norm by many members

There is sometimes a conflict of interest between business profits and clinical safety In one Australian private day clinic, patients were being pushed through theatre,

‘No ROI for health technology’ warn’s experienced investor Rob Coppedge, CEO of Echo Health Ventures announced in a post on the 6th September 2017 that ‘Digital

Australians have courage. Especially under fire. Gallipoli is one example. Whistle blowers are another.

Australian patients are denied access to information about prior complaints, restrictions on practice or Coroner’s reports.

8,000 people may die every year in hospitals from hospital errors Australia. So why don’t we have a national reporting system?

Governments and private insurers are struggling with hospitals. These powerful institutions are driving up costs while resisting transparency and reform.

Hospitals that cut back on nurses education run the risk of increasing their incidence of errors.

‘Best Practice’ has no legal status. Clinical standards and staffing levels can vary substantially from one hospital to another.

Is sexism in surgery linked to the broader issue of bullying in hospitals? And how to we support junior staff to feel safe and well supported in hospitals?