Money for taxcuts: Instantaneous and Plentiful ($16 Billion). Funding for a rural mental health nurse practitioner who will treat literally tens of thousands of patients in their career? Sorry, no $.
The choices this government has made and the implications for our health services are breathtakingly disgusting!
You just have to listen to/read the news to know the GP population is aging/retiring and increasing the number of Nurse Practitioners is crucial to providing and maintaining effective medical services - in some cases NPs are literally filling the GP gaps. That this coalition can’t figure out to lock in certainty for Nurse Practitioners as part of the medical professional workforce solution demonstrates their ineptitude.
What the heck is Reti doing? This is such a no-brainer decision?
Unfortunately Gary, while we need to read information such as you have provided, it hurts to constantly read the wilful deconstruction of our public services by this terrible government. Kia kaha to you in your mahi and in your reporting to us. I appreciate you.
You're welcome Janine. I can't put a fine enough point on it, I think these govt policies will be bad for patients' health and wellbeing. (And they'll prove costly as well). I hope more health workers and patients speak up. It's definitely not the time to quietly let this vandalism if public services go unchecked.
Keep up your good work on behalf of nurse practitioners.
Thank you for speaking up and alerting us to yet another example of underhand unscrupulous skulduggery in our public health system. I do wish NZ Doctor magazine would make their reporting of these issues available for all. I for one would appreciate being able to read what they have to say
The choices this government has made and the implications for our health services are breathtakingly disgusting!
You just have to listen to/read the news to know the GP population is aging/retiring and increasing the number of Nurse Practitioners is crucial to providing and maintaining effective medical services - in some cases NPs are literally filling the GP gaps. That this coalition can’t figure out to lock in certainty for Nurse Practitioners as part of the medical professional workforce solution demonstrates their ineptitude.
What the heck is Reti doing? This is such a no-brainer decision?
Unfortunately Gary, while we need to read information such as you have provided, it hurts to constantly read the wilful deconstruction of our public services by this terrible government. Kia kaha to you in your mahi and in your reporting to us. I appreciate you.
You're welcome Janine. I can't put a fine enough point on it, I think these govt policies will be bad for patients' health and wellbeing. (And they'll prove costly as well). I hope more health workers and patients speak up. It's definitely not the time to quietly let this vandalism if public services go unchecked.
Keep up your good work on behalf of nurse practitioners.
Agreed. I wish they had at least a little bit of open access content for the public.
Thank you for speaking up and alerting us to yet another example of underhand unscrupulous skulduggery in our public health system. I do wish NZ Doctor magazine would make their reporting of these issues available for all. I for one would appreciate being able to read what they have to say
Thank you for your great efforts in keeping us informed
Essential reading!