07/04/2026
Imagine your mum or dad living in an aged care home. They're unwell. Instead of getting care on the spot, they're loaded into an ambulance and sent to an emergency department - overwhelmed, disoriented, and far from familiar faces.
This happens over 200,000 times a year in Australia. And up to half of those trips may be completely preventable.
Here's what's frustrating: the technology to assess and treat residents on-site, without the ambulance trip, is already installed in more than 520 aged care homes across the country. It's been there for years.
The problem isn't the tech. It's that we're not using it.
Our Director of Clinical Innovation, Ben Chiarella, has written a piece that asks a simple but uncomfortable question: we have the tools, we have the infrastructure - so what's stopping us?
It's worth a read. Link in comments 👇