27/05/2026
This is directed at my industry. If you’re not a physio, scroll past.
I just returned home from Digital Health Festival, and I love the conference, people, and conversations. But I left feeling unsettled and frustrated.
Is this what it feels like to watch your profession’s (and many different allied health practitioners’) ideas finally land through someone else’s microphone?
As a health professional, I’m glad we’ve arrived here. It still feels like a kick in the gut.
We were simply not loud enough. Or maybe we directed our voices at the wrong place. Maybe we were distracted by our own internal divisions. 🤷🏻♀️
I spent most of the days after sitting with one question: if we built the proof of concept, we’ve been trying to educate patients on a community level as small businesses, we’ve been trying to share with professionals ‘up the chain’, why are we so consistently absent from the rooms where the system is being redesigned?
The internal divisions are not going to sort themselves before the external conversation moves on.
We need to look up. Look out.
Choose our battles. ❤️