Viewpoint - Getting on with the jobBy: Marja Lubeck
This time last year we were halfway through the lockdown. Looking back and going hard and early in our health response gave us the opportunity for a head start on our economic recovery. We are rebuilding – while the pandemic is still raging in much of the rest of the world.
We have seen double digit growth in apprentice numbers, despite the impacts of Covid-19. People from across the community are signing up for careers in the trades. The Government invested more than $320 million in free trades training, and nearly $100 million to support employers to retain apprentices and take on new ones. And the upward trend is continuing in 2021.
White Man Behind a Desk05:00, May 03 2021
White Man Behind A Desk
SATIRE: The government s review into Pharmac is like reviewing a goalkeeper who has their hands tied behind their back. Full video available at Patreon.com/WhiteManBehindADesk.
SATIRE: Kia ora! My name’s Robbie and I’m another white man behind a desk. So, the government commissioned the Health and Disability System Review, which said, “Hey, we’ve probably got too many District Health Boards,” and so Andrew Little said, “Okay, how about zero? What if we have zero District Health Boards?” And then he announced Health New Zealand and the Māori health authority.
Functionally obsolete IT system at Auckland Hospital to be scrapped
1 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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All of New Zealand s 20 district health boards will be replaced by one, single national health body responsible for the running of all hospitals, the Government has revealed. Video / Mark Mitchell
All of New Zealand s 20 district health boards will be replaced by one, single national health body responsible for the running of all hospitals, the Government has revealed. Video / Mark Mitchell
Nicholas Jones is an investigative reporter at the New Zealand Herald nicholas.jones@nzherald.co.nz@nickjonesnzer An IT system that can more easily track patients if they move across DHB boundaries will be introduced at Auckland City Hospital, after investigations into recent maternity deaths found the most vulnerable women often move
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 3:48 pm
More than eight decades of health reform have failed, and
the current landscape of public and private healthcare
interests is unstable, say New Zealand researchers Murray
Horn and Des Gorman. Future reform must improve equality of
access and outcome, they say.
These proved to be key
drivers behind the health sector reforms announced today by
Health Minister Andrew Little.
“We will do away with
duplication and unnecessary bureaucracy between regions, so
that our health workers can do what they do best – keep
people well,” says Little.
“The reforms will mean
that for the first time, we will have a truly national
Government told to include fully funded ambulance services in health reform
28 Apr, 2021 11:11 PM
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Rolling ambulance services into Health NZ is vital, a First Union spokesperson says. Photo / Michael Craig
Rolling ambulance services into Health NZ is vital, a First Union spokesperson says. Photo / Michael Craig
RNZ
By Adam Jacobson of RNZ
The Government is being told its huge health system overhaul should include a fully funded ambulance service.
In countries like the United Kingdom and Canada, ambulances are paid for by their governments - but here in Aotearoa the St John service relies in part on donations and volunteers.