Posts by Sacha
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Mistakes drive 20% of our healthcare costs. Our system needs to invest in decent systems that prevent mistakes, like unified patient records.
The Quality Improvement Committee has been tackling some of those.
That focus will be picked up by the new quality agency proposed in the Horn Ministerial Review Group report, whatever form that eventually takes. However, that's clearly not enough. A focus on quality - especially from a consumer perspective - needs to be embedded in thinking and action throughout the whole system.
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caring for the elderly rather than treating them
It's a big mindset change. The health system must stop trying to expensively 'cure' disabled people and concentrate its efforts on making sure supports are provided for productive everyday living. Or get another branch of public service to manage it; one without the conflicted thinking.
That type of change will not be driven as Dyan said upthread by involving only transaction-oriented doctors or nurses in decisions, though they have wisdom to contribute. Public health specialists, epidemiologists, and dare I say disability strategists are also essential parts of the answer. Heck, even economists seem useful :)
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the world needs more photos of obscure signs
Surely someone snapped "Beware of the grid monsta"?
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Inadvertent gets its umpteenth airing for the year, most featuring the same tribe of pollies. Lack of deliberateness, little deliberation about anything.
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Well that's the main thing
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Mainly amongst the american influenced wheelie fraternity.
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It's not so simple as saying that any member of a certain group of people can call themselves whatever they like - the labels represent social negotiation over time.
We all have different depths and angles of understanding, and only some of us have the luxury of specialist interest and/or the credibility of daily experience to draw on. There's also a big difference between a face-to-face conversation and a broadcast utterance.
Part of the reason why Henry is getting served over this now is a maturity of belonging and politics where the people he is demeaning and their associates are ready to say it's not ok. The context is influenced by other successes, by media coverage and the actions of public agencies including government and even the United Nations.
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Accompanied by changes so that the Foundation's blind and vision-impaired members elect the Board.
No idea what the 'education centre' refers to, Andrew - maybe Homai?
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He's the boss.
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I am disappointed that this is not as I hurriedly surmised a thread lamenting Bob the baby's departure back to the fertile plains of the mainland. As you were.