On Friday evening 19 May sacked Chair of Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) Rob Campbell gave an address to an event in Auckland organised by New Zealand Women in Health with an attendance of around 90. He outlined his take on the problems of Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system and what is needed to…
Developments are coming to a head over those of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public hospital laboratories which were privatised under both Labour and National led governments. This was foreshadowed in my recent column published by BusinessDesk: How to fix the hospital laboratory fiasco. In the column I discussed the context in which several public hospital laboratories…
On 9 February TVNZ’s 1News reported massive public hospital occupancy; 100% more than 600 times in 2022. At this level no person in their right mind could dispute the fact that Aotearoa New Zealand has a health system crisis even before this year’s winter is upon us: Hospitals hit 100% occupancy over 600 times last year.…
In January this year my political opposite Heather Roy and I jointly published a paper under the title Te Whatu Ora: Achieving Patient Centred Care and Wellbeing: Achieving Patient-Centred Care and Wellbeing. What is patient-centred care We explained what putting patient-centred care at the core of Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system in the following way: Our…
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Ian Powell was Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, the professional union representing senior doctors and dentists in New Zealand, for over 30 years, until December 2019. He is now a health systems, labour market, and political commentator living in the small river estuary community of Otaihanga (the place by the tide).
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