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Militant inquiry into the ‘white factory’ (hospital) – Part one – Wildcat April 1988
We translated this article as a general framework for discussion. In 1988 comrades in Germany were inspired, in part by the nurses strikes in the USA and the UK during the same year. The age of the text sets limits for its current applicability, but it can help with discussing long-term changes in the sector. It also allows us to share the serious debate of that time. We can think about if the hospital can indeed be classified as a ‘white factory’ or what kind of fundamental differences there are between manufacturing and modern health care. We can also see how many work tasks were pushed down the pay hierarchy towards the lower paid ranks since this article was written. The text mentions that ‘only doctors are supposed to take blood samples’ and that nurses went on a ‘syringe strike’ – today it’s increasingly the job of health care assistants to perform these tasks. Anothers
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Maintaining access to innovation through Prostheses List
AusBiotech has submitted comment on the Department of Health’s Prostheses List (PL) consultation on behalf of members, advocating for maintained access to new innovation in order to achieve good outcomes for patients through timely access to the medical devices they need.
While AusBiotech accepts that some reform may be needed to the PL, it is but small in nature. It has encouraged the Department to maintain the PL, and the benefits and the value it brings to innovators and patients. The consultation paper offered two options for consideration: major reform, or completely changing the system.