Imogen Wallace / Chief Operating Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Australian private hospitals usually leave insurer negotiations to commercial and finance teams. The clauses decide staffing, length of stay and discharge planning, so the people who run wards and theatres should help write them.
Read the essayAustralian private hospitals usually leave insurer negotiations to commercial and finance teams. The clauses decide staffing, length of stay and discharge planning, so the people who run wards and theatres should help write them.
Private hospitals still allocate operating sessions to surgeons for decades, used or not. Empty sessions cost patients time they never see on a report, and fair release rules can fix that without driving good surgeons away.
Regional private hospitals often try to offer everything a city hospital does. Low volumes make that unsafe and expensive. A narrower service, designed with the public hospital next door, serves the town better.