Your Frontline podcast is amazing too, Dr Gary. I'm sure it's tiering work, but is does keep us(general public) in the loop of how you guys on the healthcare front lines are being affected.
Maybe they will want to but I’m sure to break a contract will have a millions dollar break fee. Simeon will ensure they contracts are very difficult to break.
🤷 No doubt you are correct about "break fees" BUT a cost-benefit analysis of 100% going direct to health instead of 60-70%, plus all the other benefits of staff retention & on-the-job-training etc would be interesting ⁉️ Not to mention the cost of NOT doing it as in entrenching rather than halting privatisation 🤔
🫂 Thanks for taking on the extra work of keeping us informed. While the immediate results of your medical work might be quantifiable, this public education & advocacy will, I believe, also save lives if/when we, the public, can do our bit to force political decision making based on need-not-greed before it is too late. It is also incalculable how much of a morale boost it is to medical personnel at all levels to see & hear, and even have an opportunity to participate in, honest factual discussions which show support & validation for their own concerns over the whole spectrum of the current health system challenges & failings. 💪💗
Gary and Odie your reality of the situation you work in is a reality in the hospital my husband was taken to by ambulance. He was seen by the only triage nurse on duty that night in ED 41/2 hours after arriving at the hospital. Yes we sat on the hard plastic chairs to wait alongside dozens of sick people. The nurse was tremendous in her ability to assess take tests and make decisions for care. He got a bed in the plaster room two hours later then finally a bed in ED. He stayed in ED 40 hours before a bed became available in the ward.
I observed the level of staffing as I stayed with him all the time and monitored his stats. When things went crazy I went and found his nurse who had a patient load of 6!!!
Despite the pressure of patient load he was treated with dignity care and concern by all the medical staff.
It reinforced how seriously understaffed the hospital is. Also nurse work safety was not good and needs changing.
Simeon Brown needs to listen to the nurses. He has a personal opinion about how the health system can work and in his mind it is the only way.
If the health system was not critical for keeping people alive I would suggest a strike of everyone in a hospital so it stops day rolling to every hospital in Aotearoa.
People will be up in arms but something has to change.
Without the medical work force staying in Aotearoa we won’t have a health system.
I would love to see a debate with you and Brown Gary.
Are you aware of the book “ A Dim Prognosis” by Ivor Popovich.. also enlightening, as you are.
Great Q and A interview with those two.
Your Frontline podcast is amazing too, Dr Gary. I'm sure it's tiering work, but is does keep us(general public) in the loop of how you guys on the healthcare front lines are being affected.
Thank you.
I'm wondering what the chances are of breaking ten year contracts. Surely Labour will roll them back.
Maybe they will want to but I’m sure to break a contract will have a millions dollar break fee. Simeon will ensure they contracts are very difficult to break.
🤷 No doubt you are correct about "break fees" BUT a cost-benefit analysis of 100% going direct to health instead of 60-70%, plus all the other benefits of staff retention & on-the-job-training etc would be interesting ⁉️ Not to mention the cost of NOT doing it as in entrenching rather than halting privatisation 🤔
The cost of the break fee will be worth negotiating to rid our country of a private health care model.
The Govt can then concentrate on building a solid health system.
Thanks again Gary.
🫂 Thanks for taking on the extra work of keeping us informed. While the immediate results of your medical work might be quantifiable, this public education & advocacy will, I believe, also save lives if/when we, the public, can do our bit to force political decision making based on need-not-greed before it is too late. It is also incalculable how much of a morale boost it is to medical personnel at all levels to see & hear, and even have an opportunity to participate in, honest factual discussions which show support & validation for their own concerns over the whole spectrum of the current health system challenges & failings. 💪💗
Gary and Odie your reality of the situation you work in is a reality in the hospital my husband was taken to by ambulance. He was seen by the only triage nurse on duty that night in ED 41/2 hours after arriving at the hospital. Yes we sat on the hard plastic chairs to wait alongside dozens of sick people. The nurse was tremendous in her ability to assess take tests and make decisions for care. He got a bed in the plaster room two hours later then finally a bed in ED. He stayed in ED 40 hours before a bed became available in the ward.
I observed the level of staffing as I stayed with him all the time and monitored his stats. When things went crazy I went and found his nurse who had a patient load of 6!!!
Despite the pressure of patient load he was treated with dignity care and concern by all the medical staff.
It reinforced how seriously understaffed the hospital is. Also nurse work safety was not good and needs changing.
Simeon Brown needs to listen to the nurses. He has a personal opinion about how the health system can work and in his mind it is the only way.
If the health system was not critical for keeping people alive I would suggest a strike of everyone in a hospital so it stops day rolling to every hospital in Aotearoa.
People will be up in arms but something has to change.
Without the medical work force staying in Aotearoa we won’t have a health system.
Simeon Brown is a disgrace
I couldn't find the interview with Odie Matson
Coming this week. Producer was working on it tonight.
It's up(the Odie podcast), on the Frontline on youtube