I recently had a look through the people profiled on the ASIX website as change-makers. I wanted to see how socially diverse and occupationally broad are the "change-makers".
Australia's health system has largely been exempt from social innovation since the middle part of the twentieth century. From that time, mutual health funds stopped being innovators in health care and became simple insurance houses, while state health departments began absorbing hospitals and clinics that had previously been established by independent social organisations, such as charitable and memership-based organisations, and friendly societies.
