Care Beyond Barriers

Once dismissed as Silicon Valley provocation, the question of ‘will AI replace doctors’, now feels a very real possibility. As large language models pass licensing exams and multimodal systems interpret scans at scale, the panel examines which parts of medicine are most exposed to automation and which remain deeply human. Diagnostic specialties may shift first. Clinical knowledge can be scaled. Bu...

Loneliness. Housing instability. Food insecurity. Obesity. Chronic disease. Increasingly, these issues don’t land in community centres or social services, they land in GP clinics and emergency departments. What happens when medicine becomes the catch all for problems rooted in social fragmentation? From eight minute consultations that can’t possibly solve loneliness, to pharmacists becoming surrog...

Trust in healthcare has fractured between patients and clinicians, clinicians and institutions, and across society more broadly. In the wake of COVID, public health messaging, misinformation, politicisation and time poor consultations have left many patients sceptical and many clinicians defensive. Where did that erosion begin? And how it shows up today: in misdiagnosis, in eight minute consults,...

Regulation is designed to protect patients. Incentives are designed to drive behaviour. When they misalign, the whole system distorts. What happens when 20 year approval cycles collide with startup timelines, when “wellness” blurs into medicine, and when payment models reward activity over outcomes?  Technology moves fast. Regulation and funding move slowly. The friction between the two is shaping...

Healthcare systems are operating under sustained pressure. Expanding the workforce has not translated into improved access or stability. In some regions, increasing training places has exposed deeper infrastructure gaps,like placement bottlenecks, geographic mismatches, funding constraints and outdated care models that no longer reflect the burden of modern disease. How does capacity strain show u...

Rising chronic disease, ageing populations, clinician burnout, and regulatory inertia are colliding in real time and putting healthcare systems around the globe under immense pressure. In this opening episode of Care Beyond Barriers, Christina Farr sits down with Dr Tom Kelly, Dr Hannah Allen and Dr Simon Kos to unpack what’s happening inside clinics and whether artificial intelligence can respons...

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