Category: New Zealand Associations and Organisaitons

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

Headline: Nauru ousting Doctors Without Borders ‘unthinkable’ – Ghahraman

The government of Nauru has ordered that Médecins Sans Frontières – or Doctors Without Borders – stop working in the country, effective immediately. The charity has been providing medical services to residents, asylum seekers and refugees on the island since late 2017. Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman has labelled the move unthinkable. She talks to Susie Ferguson.

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

Headline: It’s hard for doctors to unlearn things. That’s costly for all of us.

We know it can be hard to persuade physicians to do some things that have proven benefits, such as monitor blood pressure or keep patients on anticoagulants. But it might be even harder to get them to stop doing things.

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

Headline: A public business, not a public service

OPINION: Yet again, the neoliberal wrecking ball is swinging through New Zealand’s public service, fronted, alas, by Chris Hipkins whose laudable attempt (launched last February) to clean up the mess created by the State Sector Act 1988 has been captured by the high-paid top brass of the 1988-model state sector.

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

Headline: Investigation follows scathing report on health board spending

South Auckland’s health board has begun investigating itself after earning a scathing reprimand from the country’s health boss but no resolution to multimillion-dollar spending questions. The Counties Manukau District Health Board was meant to be subject to two more inquiries but those have been cancelled. Instead, it is calling in the lawyers off its own bat.

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

Headline: Serious questions raised over Counties-Manukau DHB finances

An official audit has raised serious questions about multiple financial irregularities at Counties Manukau District Health Board. It includes revelations that senior staff reported that DHB-run conferences made healthy profits when in fact there were losses of almost a million dollars. The problems are detailed in an audit released late yesterday by the Health Minstry which is calling the findings troubling and unacceptable but is taking no further action. Joining me now to discuss the findings is RNZ health correspondent, Karen Brown.

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

Headline: Assisted Dying bill “undermines disabled people”

Disabilities Commissioner Paula Tesoriero is strongly opposed to the End of Life Choice bill, being considered by parliament. The Justice Select committee is part way through a nationwide tour,  hearing 3,500 submissions on the bill in person, out of a total of 35,000 written submissions.

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

Headline: Select committee urged to stop the spread of ISDS under CPTPP

“A range of labour, health and environmental organisations are calling for a clause to be inserted into the CPTPP Amendment Bill that would prevent future governments from extending investor‑state dispute settlement (ISDS) to countries seeking to join the agreement,” says Oliver Hailes, spokesperson for It’s Our Future, the network of opposition to the TPPA and other economic treaties that undermine democracy.

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

Headline: The changing shape of NHS finances

As austerity and widespread staffing shortages began to bite over the past decade, the finances of NHS providers often took a familiar shape each year – a few providers made a large surplus, a few made a large deficit, and most organisations hovered around the ‘breakeven’ middle. But more recently this pattern of financial performance has been increasingly pulled out of shape and distorted.

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

Headline: How is the NHS performing? June 2018 quarterly monitoring report

The King’s Fund published its first quarterly monitoring report in April 2011 as part of our work to track, analyse and comment on the changes and challenges the health and care system is facing. This is the 26th report and aims to take stock of what has happened over the past three months, including the recently announced funding offer for the NHS.

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