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Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs) are characterised by features that can create hypervisibility, and hyperstimulation, that raise psychological safety issues. However, there is a lack of rese...

According to the OECD definition of innovative learning environments (ILEs), inclusion is considered a pillar of its design. The depiction of an inclusive ILE from the OECD outlines the importance ...

Australia was an early signatory to the Salamanca Statement, and it espouses inclusive education (IE) as the overarching philosophy of education for all. A 2015 critique of IE in Australia [Anderso...

Over the first few months of 2020, the schooling sector shifted to distance education as governments moved to bring the virus, COVID-19, under control. Education sectors rapidly developed online en...

District general hospital scanners have historically been linked to regional neuroscience units for specialist opinions on scans and to make decisions on transfer of patients requiring neurosurgical management. The implementation of digital picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in all hospitals in the UK has disrupted these dedicated links and technical and information governance issues have delayed reprovision of electronic transfer of images for rapid expert decision making in this group of patients. We studied improvement in image transfer to acute neurosurgery units over a 4-year period.Four-year sequential review of national provision of image transfer facilities into neurosurgery units; observational study of delays associated with image transfer modalities in one representative tertiary referral centre.During the 4 years of study, all hospitals nationally have implemented digital PACS systems for image viewing. Remote image viewing facilities have gradually changed with dedicated image links being replaced by remote PACS access. However, a minority of referrals (12%) still require images to be physically transferred between hospitals using couriers for CD-ROMs. The detailed study within our own unit shows that this adds a mean delay of 5.8 h to decision making.Image transfer in neuroscience has been neglected following the shift to PACS servers. The recommendations of the 2004 Neuroscience Critical Care Report are unmet and patient safety is being threatened by a continued failure to implement a coordinated solution to this problem.