Photo: The health sector continues to lag behind other industries in providing information about its performance. (Unsplash) When you’re looking to book a flight, it’s not hard to find websites that will tell you which airline is offering the cheapest prices or what previous passengers thought about their experience. From seat comfort and layover times to safety ratings, whatever your qualm, the internet is at your disposal. So why don’t we have anything like that when it comes to healthcare in Australia? Despite long waiting lists and high rates of complications (a statistic that affects one in four people who stay in hospital overnight), the health sector continues to lag behind other industries in providing public information about its performance. Progress on public reporting has been glacial — in fact, it’s been a decade since the National Health and Hospital Reforms Commission recommended there be a nationally consistent framework […]