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One More Attempt to ‘Fix’ the Healthcare System
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Later this week, the Minister of Health is going to announce one more reform of the healthcare system. He had an article in yesterday’s Sunday Star-Times which began with the confident statement that “It’s pretty clear what’s wrong with our health system – long
Erica Stanford – Long Overdue Relief for Split Migrant Families
National is pleased a solution has finally been found for some of the migrants split from their families after the Government forced them to endure more than a year of distress and uncertainty, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “News that many migrants, including our critical nurses and health
The Greens Call for an Empowered Independent Maori Health Authority
Green Party Dr Elizabeth Kerekere During Waitangi this year the Green Party’s Te Matawaka caucus announced their priority for an independent Maori Health Authority. We have heard the call from Tangata Whenua wanting any authority to be independent, and properly resourced. “For too long Maori have not received the
Road to Nowhere: New Zealanders Struggle to Get the Help They Need, 2 Years on from a Funding Boost for Mental Health Services
Dougal Sutherland Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Dougal is a registered Clinical Psychologist with 20 years’ experience working with children, teens, families, adults, and organisations. He has a PhD in Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology, both from the University of Otago. As part of New
Face of the Day
An elderly man feels so let down by the scattershot state of his in-home care, he wants to give back the Queen’s Service Medal he once received for services to health. Twice a day Eric Clarke, 87, opens the front door of his Feilding home to carers. They see
Dr Shane Reti – DHBs Discharging Elderly in the Middle of the Night
The Government needs to explain why it’s allowing DHBs to discharge our elderly people from hospital in the middle of the night, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. In January alone, 156 patients aged 80 years and older were discharged from hospital between 1 am and 8
Graph Illustrates Government’s Failures
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “A Ministry of Health graph drawn by a graphic designer with no data to inform it is the perfect metaphor for this Government, all spin and no substance,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Like most things with this government, they present a nice picture
The Frankenstein Elite Crave Young Blood
Countess Elizabeth Bathory was said to be obsessed with the notion that bathing in the blood of young girls was the key to eternal youth. To that end, legend has it that she murdered as many as 600 girls. It seems that Bathory was a pioneer for today’s wealthy
Too Many Needles in the News
The phrase “mind over matter” actually works in practice. When a problem becomes an obsession, resolution can be found in logically examining the facts and allowing the brain to counter an unpleasant physical reaction. Our brain is a powerful problem-solving tool. Every night since the government began distributing the Pfizer
Low Nicotine Ciggies Will Drive up Poverty
ACT Party ACT Social Development and Children spokesperson Karen Chhour. “New Zealand smokers will who can least afford it will spend more on their habit and in turn do harm to those around them if the Government mandates lower nicotine in tobacco,” says ACT Social Development and Children spokesperson Karen
Labour Is Failing on Mental Health across the Board
Labour is failing New Zealanders struggling with mental illness, National’s Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey says. “This isn’t a matter of the Government failing in just one area of mental health management and services. There are failures and incompetency across the board. “Wait times have ballooned under Labour
National Calls for Epidemic Response Committee to Return
Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee must return to allow proper scrutiny of the Government’s Covid-19 Response, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins and National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop say. “The Government-controlled Health Select Committee has proven itself ill-equipped and ill-suited to the task of properly examining the
Not Even a Vaccine Will Set Us Free
Remember “two weeks to flatten the curve”? Eighteen months later, we’re still being locked down, travel-restricted, mandatorily-masked and spied upon. Not even the large-scale roll-out of vaccines has done much to prise loose the claws of a panopticon state. This, we are endlessly told, is the “new normal”. In
Vaccination Botch up Needs Urgent Fix
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s unacceptable the Government won’t play hardball with unions and force those employees unwilling to get a COVID vaccine to vacate MIQ premises for another 18 days,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Stop pussyfooting about and take the necessary steps to protect