by Editor | Jul 27, 2022 | Clinical, Management
“For many Aboriginal people in the bush, hospital is code word for ‘the place you go to die.’ People are used to seeing friends and relatives go off to hospital but never coming home.” A resident of Mataranka in the Northern Territory First Nations...
by Editor | Jul 27, 2022 | Facilities, Management
Despite renewed calls to wear masks, many Australians are now working, shopping and socialising as if the pandemic had already been relegated to the history books. COVID-19 is still a very present and unwelcome reality for Australia’s hospitals, though. In a May...
by Editor | Jul 27, 2022 | Facilities, Management
The development or refurbishment of hospitals and healthcare facilities requires immense effort from many people over many years. Yet when a new facility opens, there are often evident weaknesses or missed opportunities in its design. How could those be avoided? Are...
by Editor | May 16, 2022 | Featured
As the father of medicine once said, “the physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future”. You don’t have to be Hippocrates to know that for over two years COVID-19 has caused immense upheaval to our health system, capacity...
by Editor | May 16, 2022 | Facilities, Management
Nobody likes waiting. We don’t like it in trivial situations like traffic jams and we certainly don’t like it when it involves potentially serious consequences like waiting for surgery. Lengthy waiting lists for elective surgery are a headache for hospital management...
