Cardiologists dialing into meetings held just down the corridor a symptom of transplant unit’s ‘dysfunctions’
An 'extremely concerning' benchmarking report on a hospital’s heart and lung transplant services reveals that issues can still come down to personalities.
In a world of budgets, precision medication and machines that go ping, medicine’s issues can still come down to the willingness of doctors to talk to each other.
An example in point comes from Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital.
An “extremely concerning” benchmarking report on the hospital’s heart and lung transplant services, commissioned last year by Metro North Health, has revealed issues requiring “urgent attention”.
It said the heart transplant service would be expected to perform 20-25 transplants a year, based on the population and rates at other services, but was performing about half this number.
