Category: New Zealand Associations and Organisaitons

Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Our sick hospitals

The NZ Herald reveals serious hospital infrastructure issues across the country, including cramped, leaky and outdated buildings, old wiring that poses a fire hazard, not enough theatre space and a lack of equipment to help transfer vulnerable newborns.  It says they are a major risk to the treatment and safety of patients.  Highlights ASMS’ Hospitals on the Edge report.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Bushfire smoke research will help doctors – AMA

The Australian Medical Association says the findings of new bushfire smoke research will provide people with better knowledge of prevention measures and empower doctors with better clinical solutions to care for communities affected by future extreme bushfires and other air quality emergencies.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Health boards struggle to recover overseas patient debt

Overseas visitors have racked up millions of dollars in treatment bills in New Zealand hospitals over the past five years – only a portion of which is likely to have been recovered.  Healthcare provided to ineligible patients included emergency department admissions, outpatient appointments and acute inpatient admissions for a range of conditions. Read more

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: DHBs must address leadership culture – Ian Powell

Ian Powell, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, has led the union since its formation in 1989. He leaves ASMS at the end of the year, and is gravely concerned about the state of district health boards, particularly the Southern DHB. Read more. 

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Attacks on children’s hospitals must end

The increasing trend for children’s hospitals to be attacked by terrorists and armed forces has been denounced by the World Medical Association to mark tomorrow’s 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Gender bias report. Senior doctors “making up for being female”

A new Association of Salaried Medical Specialists report is giving insight into why senior women doctors are burning out at a quicker rate than their male counterparts and are more likely to work through illness. The Director of Policy and Research with ASMS, Charlotte Chambers, interviewed 14 senior women doctors for the study and found common narratives around subtle and overt gender bias, as well as a lack of work-life balance. She says the medical profession needs an urgent shift in thinking but active discussions are taking place to make this happen.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: 40,000 more New Zealanders to begin screening for bowel cancer

About 40 thousand more New Zealanders are set to begin receiving potentially life-saving screening for bowel cancer. Twelve thousand of them live in the Whanganui District Health Board area, which will join the national screening programme on Tuesday. Neighbouring MidCentral DHB is likely to follow next month — setting a halfway milestone for a carefully managed programme that some worry is already stretched. Health Correspondent Karen Brown reports.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: How is the NHS performing? July 2019 quarterly monitoring report

Since April 2011, The King’s Fund has published a quarterly monitoring report (QMR) to track, analyse and comment on the issues the health and care system is facing. This is the 28th QMR, which takes stock of what has happened over the past few months with NHS financial and operational performance in England.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Call to end dog-transmitted human rabies by 2030

A call for the total elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies by 2030 has come from the World Veterinary Association (WVA) and the World Medical Association (WMA). The two organizations have joined forces to mark World Rabies Day tomorrow (September 28) in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Rabies Control.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Use of motels demonstrates perils of short-termism

News that Wellington Hospital is using motels to deal with patient over-flow is a consequence of the short-termism that characterises new hospital builds in New Zealand, says Angela Belich, Acting Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS).

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