Who needs a Chief Medical Officer?
A chat with #BHN podcast on why firing them is unwise. And a quick mention of the 2nd government scandal of the week, no not the Fast Track $500K, but the Gumboot Friday funding debacle.
I just met Chewie and @patbrittenden of #BHN. One of our few and precious non-neoliberal funded media outlets. No billionaires bankrolling it or anything. Old school.
Tldr; we talked about govt eliminating 4 Chief Medical Officers and whether that's a good thing (it's really not).
And whether there are financial conflicts of interest in having a private hospital founder run your whole country's public hospital system (there might be, but at the rate things are going, we may never know).
And a bit about whether you should underfund mental health services and instead give 24 million to a celebrity's #GumbootFriday charity for photo ops and political support, in violation of legal procurement guidelines (you probably shouldn't).
It was a good conversation. Please spam it around to your colleagues.
https://www.youtube.com/live/lVPw43HlLks?si=gpXq-D7Aww_77nbG