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Linda Bullard, a victim of abuse in state care as a child, has cycled from Waimate to Picton and then took a ferry to deliver a letter to Parliament asking for better mental health care for New Zealanders.
Linda Bullard is a person, not a number. Not a statistic, and not a name on a page. That s what she wanted to prove when she jumped on her bike and set off from Waimate, near Timaru, two weeks ago with no training, destined for Parliament. Her experiences of abuse in state care as a child and into her teens have a profound impact on her life to this day, as she suffers from depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts.
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Ryan Teahan, a clinical nurse co-ordinator at Wellington Regional Hospital s post-anaesthetic care unit, was among the 30,000 nurses striking over pay and conditions on Wednesday. (First published June, 2021) Part of this included staffing hospitals according to the care capacity demand programme, software which helps hospitals better set safe staffing levels, and variable response management which ensures there are enough clinicians on shift should workload pressures increase. All 20 boards were supposed to have started using the programme by June 30, but only 10 have. It also included the pay equity claim which aimed to address sex-based pay discrimination, while the pay offer would lift base pay-rates by $1800 a year and a lump sum payment of $1200. Members were generally happy with the pay-aspect of the rejected deal, but were unconvinced it addressed safe staffing issues.
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The programme started in 2017 and is now in 17 of the 20 district health board areas.
Mr Little says New Zealand has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the developed world, and it’s this country’s second-most-common cause of death from cancer, with 100 deaths a month.
The programme is starting to reduce that toll.
Thirty-nine per cent of the cancers found have been in the early stages, where there is a 95 per cent chance of patients living at least another five years.