But seriously - perfectly put & 💯 agree. & each govt like this makes the next one that wants to fund Health etc properly, has more and more catch up & bigger & bigger $$$ to find to even make a dent in the back log, let alone take us FORWARD - infuriating is the polite word, & now we have a possibly worse person as Health Minister after the re-shuffle!
My husband & I have worked in the health system & NGO over our working lives - I have been watching this horror show develop with growing unease over the past year. It is becoming terrifying actually - this has turned it all up a notch now.
Thank you for your posts Gary - we need someone at the coal face who is courageous enough to call this bullshit out for what it is. I suspect many in the system agree with you but are scared & too tired trying to make everything work to have the energy to fight individually.
Privatisation by stealth, except they are becoming more brazen as the years go by. Note that a new private hospital is to be built in Wellington - not where the greatest health needs are, but handy for the surgeons who will work there as well as at the nearby public hospital. I wonder if this new hospital will provide the services for complex cases or just cream off the straight forward stuff?
presumably like private surgical centres and private hospitals elsewhere in NZ. have a chronically infected knee because of your multiple prior surgeries, or your diabetes: you get to go to the public hospital and will wait for ED, MRI, surgeon’s appointment, anaesthetic assessemnt, and your operative theatre date. lots of waiting.
got a runner’s knee injury that needs arthroscopic surgery, which is paid for by ACC: you get a referral from the public system to go the private.
it’s literally akin to winnowing gold from mud.
its wild, brazen, and so common that it’s considered completely normal.
Honesty, wouldn’t that be refreshing. Luxon has well and truly failed and so has the coalition he has failed to lead. Watching is frustrating times infinity.
It’s a dreadful state of affairs. We should all be ashamed of the way primary and tertiary healthcare has been bought to it’s knees, by successive governments
I have been saying for years now that successive govts have allowed for massive immigration but have done nothing to improve the infrastructure, this was particularly obvious during the Key govt. The healrh system has borne the brunt and primary health care is the canary in the coal mine. Privatisation is next.
Thank you for speaking out so altruistically Gary. Perhaps our NZ trained doctors who are happily utilising the private sector need to take some responsibility as well.
Absolutely.
Instead we get moar roads and increased speed limits so we can create more hospital cases.
And the ideologue who pushed these higher speed limits is now the Minister of Health.
Yes. unfortunately.
Is he even old enough to go to a doctor on his own? Let alone be in charge of our entire health system!
We are screwed with a capital S ...hell even an actual doctor who worked & lived here managed to put the brakes on our much needed hospital rebuild.
🤔Tell us what you REALLY think 🧐
But seriously - perfectly put & 💯 agree. & each govt like this makes the next one that wants to fund Health etc properly, has more and more catch up & bigger & bigger $$$ to find to even make a dent in the back log, let alone take us FORWARD - infuriating is the polite word, & now we have a possibly worse person as Health Minister after the re-shuffle!
My husband & I have worked in the health system & NGO over our working lives - I have been watching this horror show develop with growing unease over the past year. It is becoming terrifying actually - this has turned it all up a notch now.
Thank you for your posts Gary - we need someone at the coal face who is courageous enough to call this bullshit out for what it is. I suspect many in the system agree with you but are scared & too tired trying to make everything work to have the energy to fight individually.
Yes Jen - totally agree!!
Privatisation by stealth, except they are becoming more brazen as the years go by. Note that a new private hospital is to be built in Wellington - not where the greatest health needs are, but handy for the surgeons who will work there as well as at the nearby public hospital. I wonder if this new hospital will provide the services for complex cases or just cream off the straight forward stuff?
presumably like private surgical centres and private hospitals elsewhere in NZ. have a chronically infected knee because of your multiple prior surgeries, or your diabetes: you get to go to the public hospital and will wait for ED, MRI, surgeon’s appointment, anaesthetic assessemnt, and your operative theatre date. lots of waiting.
got a runner’s knee injury that needs arthroscopic surgery, which is paid for by ACC: you get a referral from the public system to go the private.
it’s literally akin to winnowing gold from mud.
its wild, brazen, and so common that it’s considered completely normal.
Honesty, wouldn’t that be refreshing. Luxon has well and truly failed and so has the coalition he has failed to lead. Watching is frustrating times infinity.
It’s a dreadful state of affairs. We should all be ashamed of the way primary and tertiary healthcare has been bought to it’s knees, by successive governments
They aren't pretending, they know exactly what they're doing and who it will benefit.
Exactly! They obviously think we are all stupid…
im pretty confident the politicians dont care what people think, they just need them for their votes. and big donors for their money. done.
Yup
I have been saying for years now that successive govts have allowed for massive immigration but have done nothing to improve the infrastructure, this was particularly obvious during the Key govt. The healrh system has borne the brunt and primary health care is the canary in the coal mine. Privatisation is next.
Thank you for speaking out so altruistically Gary. Perhaps our NZ trained doctors who are happily utilising the private sector need to take some responsibility as well.