When I stopped practising law full-time to become an allied health professional, lots of people – understandably – had questions. Some colleagues asked me straight out: why throw away more than 15 years of legal and compliance experience to work in a completely different field? I never looked at it that way. Beneath the surface,…
Whether it’s on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, a blog, or another platform too trendy for us to know about yet, most speech pathologists in private practice publish or share content. Recently, a single judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled that operators of public commercial Facebook pages are “publishers” of comments made by…
We’ve had quite a few requests for this one! So, last week, we sat down with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Complaints Management and Resolution) Rules 2018 and drafted a policy template designed to help you meet its requirements. Having such a policy is a condition of registration – and something NDIS providers can expect to be…
As healthcare workers, we share the responsibility to ensure we are delivering health services in a professional, safe, and ethical manner. This week, we attended a very practical workshop hosted by Tony Kofkin and his colleagues from the Health Care Complaints Commission NSW (the ‘Commission’) to better understand the role of the Commission and its…
As a profession, speech pathologists are generous to a fault. I’ve discovered that most speech pathologists (including very senior academics and over-worked clinicians) are delighted to share their knowledge with those of us in private practice. The key challenge is connecting the dots: carving out the time to find and filter the research, and to…
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