26/03/2023
I am really honoured to be asked to present about establishing a not-for-profit international healthcare standards and ethics board at the national WILD HEALTH CANBERRA AUSTRALIAN HEALTH LEADERS’ SUMMIT
I will be speaking on ethics and standards in the healthcare industry on improving self-regulation via your professional medical and healthcare bodies can legally reduce red tape and increase funding.
With an impressive list of speakers, this should be really interesting.
I hope to see you all there!
https://wildhealth.net.au/health-canberra-australian-health-leaders-summit/
www.ihseb.org
Wild Health Canberra Australian health leaders' summit - Wild Health Summits : Connectivity
Tackling our biggest barriers to starting long-term healthcare reform In a pre-budget check-up of the Australian health system, Wild Health is going to Canberra on 4 May 2023 to examine how we might navigate the most intractable barriers to our starting meaningful, long-term healthcare reform. The p...
07/01/2022
Please be careful
Former world-class power lifter and award-winning scientist dies of COVID aged 23
Science graduate and former sportsman James Kondilios dies at St Vincent's Hospital. He was double-vaccinated and had no underlying medical conditions.
31/10/2021
It is a real honour to have our newly minted Australian national health and wealth heat map covered in The Medical Republic.
These are some of his interesting thoughts....
“When you take a whole lot of data about GP billing and behaviour, and mash it up with other interesting data about incomes of the region, voting intentions, and other social and health-related data, and then you throw it all on an expandable geo map of Australia, what you suddenly realise is there’s a whole lot of things that you took for granted that maybe you shouldn’t have.”
Publisher: Jeremy Knibbs The Medical Republic
The point of the map is to start a global conversation on health and financial literacy. Hopefully, it will nudge us all into what is right for you.
https://medicalrepublic.com.au/must-read-if-youre-a-vo**ur-of-regional-gp-and-social-economics/57019
Those who are a little short on time, click here for the map https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d2ce0dff0a9947099fde8e83c01759a3
If you’re a vo**ur of regional GP and social economics, click here • The Medical Republic
A new health data heatmap of Australia is a warren of useful and interesting rabbit holes. Dive in and you’re bound to have questions.
24/10/2021
We have just published a myth buster called Health and Life Heat Map. It is an evidenced-based national map of your local neigbourhood. Find out how much does your local GP's charge or how much do you earn compared to your neighbour.
This has been a vo**uristic and enlightening look at the most challenging and topical things we want to know about our local neighbourhood.
Want to know how much your local GP charges, or whether you have enough hospital beds to meet the COVID19 border opening deadline? Are wealthier people happier? Who is winning the war on type two diabetes?
The FREE Health and Life Heat Map is an Interactive Map that provides evidence-based publicly available government and private data about the Australian health and well-being sector. The purpose is to encourage constructive fact-checked debate on critical issues that affect your daily life. This information is based on publicly available data in your local area. For example:
What is the average income in your neighbourhood?
Do more males or females live in your area? How old are they?
Do you live in a healthy neighbourhood?
Do you have access to a doctor, hospital or aged care services?
If you are not Covid vaccinated, can your local hospital provide appropriate care?
How much do GPs and specialists in your local area charge?
How did your neighbours vote in the last Federal and State elections?
Please share the Heat Map. Start planning your practice by generating a constructive chat based on facts and not assumptions.
See Heat Map https://arcg.is/1q4yPr
27/08/2021
Is it not better for professional bodies to set and enforce healthcare standards and not Google?
YouTube’s Plan to Showcase Credible Health Information Is Flawed, Experts Warn
Search results may include a special section with videos from sources that are deemed reliable
05/08/2021
Aust. ranked no.3 out of 11 rich countries in the world. Australia would have ranked no.1 in healthcare. Access understandably let us down. We are a big country. We are no.1 for Outcomes and Equity! Congrats everyone!!
Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly | Commonwealth Fund
The United States trails far behind other high-income countries on measures of health care affordability, administrative efficiency, equity, and outcomes.
14/06/2021
The World Health Organisation published it's 10 facts on patient safety this year (see here). Of note they indicate'There is a 1 in a million chance of a person being harmed while travelling by plane. In comparison, there is a 1 in 300 chance of a patient being harmed during health care.' https://www.psnetwork.org/how-big-is-the-medical-error-problem/
How big is the medical error problem? | PatientSafe Network
How big is the medical error problem? | PatientSafe Network
Fixing Health Care Safety How big is the medical error problem? on August 3, 2018 The World Health Organisation published it’s 10 facts on patient safety this year (see here). Of note they indicate ‘There is a 1 in a million chance of a person being harmed while travelling by plane. In compar...
13/06/2021
Is it time for doctors to stop being "hero's"? Is it bad for everyone? Is this the real ""elephant in the room"?
Humanism Before Heroism in Medicine
This Viewpoint discusses the need to reframe the culture of heroic clinician narratives, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and suggests that the aim should be to achieve a culture of teamwork that acknowledges the physical and emotional needs of clinicians and does not expect them to...
04/06/2021
This gives "Bats" a bad name.
We had a similar problem when we made the atomic bomb. Should our best and brightest scientific researchers be subject to a global ethical standard?
www.ihseb.org
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/science/us-paid-chinese-peoples-liberation-army-to-engineer-coronavirus/news-story/4adee56c1433fad332a76ffe043390ea
US paid Chinese PLA to engineer coronaviruses
Anthony Faucis institute funded research by the Chinese military, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and American scientists to genetically manipulate coronaviruses soon before the pandemic hit.