Battle Undies

See, several of you have great ideas for your own projects--things that interest any of us personally tend to lead to investigation of options and recognition of gaps in service. I think you should consider what you might be able to do either collectively or as individuals

I'm resolutely sticking to my guns and asking awkward questions about how a hospital that services over 40,000 people has:

1. No dedicated lymphedema service
2. No arrangements to cover the absence of the only community physio --who quadruples as a pediatric, post surgical, chronic disease and cancer rehab physio--while she is on long service leave for a couple of months.

The physio is a personal friend of mine, she tells me that she could easily fill another two days a week with lymphedema patients that she either has to turn away or spend inadequate time with.

Timing can be everything with an advocacy campaign, there is  irrefutable evidence that funding for this service is inadequate. Everyone will blame everyone else for that shortfall.

You can bet that the CEO's PA would be replaced under similar circumstances because they would have budgeted for it. All community physio appointments have been suspended. Urgent cases will be referred to private practitioners through the post acute funding stream. No one seems to be able to explain that to me in terms a lay person can understand. Revise that, no-one knows much about that process because it rarely happens. Not good enough. At all.