Public Healthcare: the sicker they make it, the bigger the private profit
Just think how much worse it'll be when they take another $1.4 billion away from Health NZ.
One way of maximising productivity is to hire healthcare assistants for specialised staff like nurses. And helper staff for doctors wasting time on paperwork and admin tasks. And fixing a broken IT system.
I've been working as a doctor here for 17 years and this has always been a low-hanging fruit to make the Healthcare system more productive. Yeah we've…