“Like other solo parents out there, I found it hard to do everything on my own,” she says. “I worked three jobs at one stage and have been busy with work and being a mum non-stop. Financially, emotionally and physically, I struggled for many years, but I am lucky to have good friends who helped out.” Eventually, Nisa says her hard work paid off. Now a homeowner with a full-time job as a librarian she enjoys and a daughter who is more independent, she’s in a much better place. Thanks, in large part, to getting into tramping. Her outdoor adventures began just over a year ago when she and a colleague started doing the Kāpiti Coast park run, a 5km run held at Otaihanga Domain each Saturday morning. Before long, she was also walking regularly, and when a good friend shared photos from a tramping club trip on Facebook, she was so inspired she decided to join too. A move that ultimately “changed my life”.
Monday, 10 May 2021, 10:50 am
What has a pay freeze got to do with a universal public
health system? Actually quite a lot. Health systems,
especially public hospitals which handle the more complex
and urgent cases that the rest of the system can’t fix,
are by their very nature labour intensive. Overwhelmingly
delayed or denied access to public hospitals are due to
workforce shortages of at least one occupational
group.
To the extent that pay impacts on workforce
morale, retention or recruitment it also impacts on the
accessibility, quality and effectiveness of a health system.
This is no more the case than for medical
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I didnât see the decision to abolish all 20 district health boards (DHBs) coming. In mitigation nor didnât almost everyone else. Last Sunday the Minister penned an article downplaying structural change being part of his forthcoming announcement.
I made the mistake in my previous
Otaihanga Second Opinion posting of taking the Minister at face value; I was wrong. His announcement focused on structure when it should have been on system culture. However, I qualified it by adding that if his announcement was opposite to the tone of his article then the latter would be mere weasel words; and thatâs what they turned out to be.
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Otago Daily Times giving Southern
District Health Board (SDHB) a stern message over its high
deficit level.
The Minister’s implied message was
clear that SDHB was largely responsible for the deficit and
had to fix it. Along with the other 18 (out of 20) DHBs who
recorded deficits for the 2019-20 financial year, SDHB’s
deficit was largely driven by factors beyond its
control.
What are deficits
Deficits occur when
DHBs spend more than the government pays them for their
annual operating costs. For each financial year governments
first determine how much they will fund DHBs for these costs
(size of the fiscal pie) and then uses its Population Based