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26 June 2007
Hawke's Bay Senior Doctor Stopwork Meetings Confirmed
“The date of the senior doctor stopwork meeting in the Hawkes Bay District Health Board has been confirmed as part of the unprecedented national stopwork meetings over the impasse in the national collective agreement negotiations with the 21 DHBs,” said Mr
“The Hawkes Bay DHB has been formally notified that there will be a two-hour stopwork meeting on Friday 27 July commencing at 2pm. Around 70 senior doctors are expected to be involved.”
“The impasse in negotiations is caused by the failure of the DHBs to recognise the severity of
“The DHB has deliberately been given much more notice than the legal two week requirement in order that DHBs will not schedule operations and clinics during these periods of time so that patient inconvenience is minimised and as much as possible no patient faces the cancellation of scheduled appointments or procedures,” concluded Mr Powell.
Ian Powell
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
