The restructure is in response to the Health and Disability System Review, which found that MÄori have not been served well by the system , and the system has not delivered MÄori health and wellbeing outcomes that are fair . Â
Collins is clearly not a fan of the Government s plan, promising to scrap the entire restructure if National is elected to power in 2023.Â
Being really clear , Collins said on Twitter National would reverse the restructuring of public health announced by Labour today because the replacement of DHBs by a Wellington bureaucracy will not work .Â
Collins said National would also remove the Maori Health Authority because public health provision must be based on individual need, not race .Â
But with the new strains now inside New Zealand s isolation facilities, there are calls for more to be done.
Allister Rose, a former police officer and WorkSafe inspector who now runs a health and safety consultancy, said his contacts working at airports, ports and MIQ hotels fear another outbreak. The sort of thing that I m hearing is that everyone s on holiday at the moment - everyone s at the beach, he said. They see their colleagues going off to the beach and they re waiting for their turn to head off to the beach as well. So people are feeling a little bit too relaxed and they re not being checked by WorkSafe so we don t actually know how efficient our workers are at MIQ or any of the ports.