In early April I wrote about the speech Paul Callaghan gave 10 years ago which lay down a challenge for the country to accommodate new approaches to facilitate reform in society. Callaghan said “To solve the massive crises facing us, we must be innovative — we must use collaborative, … [Read more...]
A history lesson on Health
Most of us watch from the side lines about what is happening in health. Unless you are on a Board, or work in health, the only thing you think about is can I get attention when I turn up at A & E? In his latest missive Ian Powell has written about Gaius Petronius style change with health … [Read more...]
Last Week Tim Moore
As a parent you don’t get to view a side to your kid that you don’t know much about very often. As a sat and listened to our son Tim speak about the difficult topic of the “Right-to-life” legislation and its implementation I was impressed by his professionalism. This topic is about as hard as they … [Read more...]
Another article which analyses how our Health system got shafted down here
Unfortunately, the DHB’s have been assigned to the dust bin of history. Within my lifetime I believe that future politicians will be asking how the hell we got the restructuring of the health services wrong, again. I was challenged last week to acknowledge that the reforms will be just what we need … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 25 May 2021
This week here is an cartoon of the difference between Maori life expectancy and the rest of the population. It’s a sobering graph. … [Read more...]
This Week Tim Moore and Right to Die
This week we will have a talk by my son, Tim, a district palliative care nurse in Melbourne. Tim had shares in our family business but, when we had lost our building and he lost his flat after the earthquakes he decided to move, with many of his extremely creative friends, to Melbourne. There he … [Read more...]
We waited some time before we analysed the Health Reforms
The health reforms were so big it seemed sensible to sit back and wait and collect what different people were saying about them. Firstly, below is a comprehensive response from a CDHB staff member who has been involved in health for decades. I have agreed to keep their name confidential. Here … [Read more...]
RIP DHBs
Last Wednesday, the government announced that they will disestablish the system of District Health Boards (DHBs) in its entirety... This follows on from a report that Heather Simpson prepared for the government in mid-2020; you can read her report (warning – 274 pages!) or a summary of the main … [Read more...]
An outstanding article analysing how the CDHB was undermined by Wellington bureaucracies
Ian Powell has written an extremely well researched article on CDHB. It is published by Victoria Universities “Democracy Project”. It summarises how CDHB has been completely done over by the Ministry of Health and its various sub agencies over the years. Our area has been a victim of incompetent … [Read more...]
Health issues – Fluoridation
Ian Powell has written a glowing article about how effective Dr Verrall has been already with moving the responsibility for fluoridation from Local Authorities to the Director general of Health. After looking closely at the CDHB debacle I now question the effectiveness of the DG of Health, Ashley … [Read more...]
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