National Health Service

• The two companies have teamed up to deliver a best-in-class clinical asset management and security solution to healthcare organizations throughout the UK.
• Ordr announced it has partnered with the UK's leading medical device asset management provider Integra e-Quip.
• Ordr's AI-powered platform automatically discovers and classifies all devices connecting to a network, including IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) devices.
• For more information about how Ordr and e-Quip can help your organization discover and secure every connected medical device, please click here .

• Due to the advanced health monitoring features found in the devices, the wearable technology market is now playing an important role in the medical sector as well.
• In recent years, the devices have allowed healthcare providers to remotely monitor a patient's various physiological parameters.
• Nemaura Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: NMRD) announced breaking news earlier this week regarding, "interim results from its metabolic health program.
• The high medical needs designation in Japan is granted to innovative devices recognized as having high medical utility for significant diseases.

• So far, the Universities Accord’s interim report has identified compulsory, unpaid work placements as a significant barrier.
• Students often must take time out of paid work for these placements which can take place over multi-week blocks away from home.

What are work placements?

• Many professional courses, such as nursing, teaching, social work, psychology and the allied health professions, have significant work placement requirements.
• For example, social work students need to complete 1,000 hours (nearly half a year) of full-time, unpaid work experience to graduate.
• These placements are hugely important for student learning, but the time commitment means students often have to give up paid work.

1. Change the Fair Work Act

• A further 43% of educators said organisations refused to host a student if they didn’t perform well during a pre-placement interview.
• This means organisations are routinely screening students to ensure they can perform unpaid work while on placement.
• To fix this, we recommend the federal parliament changes the Fair Work Act, so vocational placements must be paid.

2. Pay students a minimum wage

• Despite the importance of paying students at least a minimum wage, it is clear the organisations they work for cannot pay.
• There is no country in the world where universities pay students to do placements.
• Calculated at the minimum wage rate (before the recent minimum wage increase), Unions NSW estimated students should earn around A$21,000 for a placement.
• Read more:
  Fair Work Commission gives a 5.2% – $40 a week – increase in the minimum wage

3. Change how learning is measured

• As one educator told us:
  [These] showed that students could achieve success in their placement and learning with less time and more flexibility.
• One practitioner said:
  More focus on demonstrating learning as opposed to just ‘ticking off hours’ could lead to shorter placements with a higher focus on the quality of learning.
• More focus on demonstrating learning as opposed to just ‘ticking off hours’ could lead to shorter placements with a higher focus on the quality of learning.

What about learning?

• While current standards are often presumed to produce competent and ethical practitioners, our research shows students are being financially stretched and stressed.
• Reflecting on their student experience, one practitioner told us:
  For me it became just getting the hours done, rather than learning.
• In addition to payment, research shows that reducing hours, and introducing more flexible work-based placements and ways to measure learning, would help.

• Riverbed, the leader in unified observability, today announced new energy efficiency capabilities through its leading digital experience management (DEM) solution, Alluvio Aternity.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230912720468/en/
  Riverbed launches new energy efficiency capabilities to Alluvio Aternity solution to drive a sustainable digital workplace.
• (Graphic: Business Wire)
  LinkedIn: Riverbed launches new energy efficiency capabilities to Alluvio Aternity to drive a sustainable digital workplace: https://rvbd.ly/3PaLT9L
  Aternity captures and correlates granular, actual end-user performance data from all applications and devices, translating it into actionable, environmental insights to reduce carbon emissions.
• For more information on the Alluvio Aternity energy efficiency capabilities, available in September, visit: https://www.riverbed.com/sustainable-it