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Patient Voice Aotearoa Calls For National Health Summit

WEBPatient Voice Aotearoa is calling for a National Health Summit, and urgent bipartisan political action, to address severe doctor shortages – and the cancellation of swathes of cancer services across the southern district – as reported by RNZ yesterday. “We are alarmed at news that Dunedin Hospital has stopped services for patients with …

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Mike King’s war against Health Ministry highlights all that is wrong

WEBMinistry of Health rejects Mike King’s Gumboot Friday funding plea. The Ministry of Health has rejected a plea for funding from Gumboot Friday, which provides free counselling for young people in New Zealand, according to Mike King.

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Waatea News Column: Chris Luxon’s argument against the Māori …

WEBMaybe Luxon feels the Māori Health Authority is just another bureaucracy that soaks up cash that could go to the front line. We are committed to delivering culturally sensitive and effective health services to Māori but don’t give a shit about the Asian Indian and other ethnic groups who have been here as long as the colonial pakeha.

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Te Aka Whai Ora Disestablishment ‘Damaging’ For Māori Health …

WEB“It’s illogical to revert to a system that has been ineffective at reducing disparities over the last 170 years,” says Professor Koea. This announcement also comes amidst ongoing, urgent calls for the coalition government to drop proposed repeals against Aotearoa’s world leading Smokefree legislation.

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Get the cops out of our mental health crisis The Daily Blog

WEBThe New Zealand Police, the Ministry of Health and Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora have developed a five-year plan for a new system for supporting people in a mental health crisis led by health professionals, with police officers playing a more limited role. Good, get the bloody cops out of mental health responses.

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Dr Liz Gordon: Migration, mental health and murder

WEB2185. Three issues of major national concern came together this week in the unlikely story of a mother and new migrant, alleged to have killed all three of her children inside their new home. The father allegedly arrived home at around 10pm and found the three children dead. It is, unfortunately, not uncommon for parents to murder their children.

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Something Entirely Different: Why Co-Governance Is A Very Bad …

WEBThe idea of co-governance (assuming it had ever existed at all) seemed to have melted away like the morning mist. It is possible, of course, to construe the history of the decade following the granting of self-government in 1853, and the outbreak of war between the settler government and the Māori tribes living in the territory immediately

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Dave Macpherson: We’re not seeing on-the-ground action on …

WEB523. In the year leading up to the 2017 election, the unlamented former Health Minister Jonathan Coleman, now CEO of a large private hospital operator, was besieged by campaigns highlighting the shocking state of mental health services in New Zealand, and the terrible statistics that was leading to, such as the world’s worst youth …

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New Assisted Dying Health Service Established

WEBThe Ministry of Health says ensuring a robust process for those seeking assisted dying is an essential safeguard as part of the new service. The assisted dying service has been formed as part of the implementation of the End of Life Choice Act 2019. It is a new health service in New Zealand, available to some people with a terminal illness …

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Wellington bureaucracy looks after their own The Daily Blog

WEBAfter intense criticism that the $1.9billion poured into mental health resulted in sweet fuck all, the Wellington bureaucrat responsible for gagging the Mental Health Foundation and censoring reports to hide ‘negative stats’ will simply be moved along to another plum job inside the bureaucracy in the never ending protected elite bubble that …

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