Media Statements 2004
Senior doctors congratulate nurses for achieving their first national collective agreement covering district health boards, the first for over a decade...
The proposal to co-locate the private accident and medical clinic with the emergency department at Wanganui Hospital is so poorly thought out...
Urgent government action is required if the catastrophic national six day strike is not to be a complete disaster for patients...
The six day national strike next month by resident doctors employed by district health boards will be a catastrophe...
Senior doctors employed by district health boards have overwhelmingly voted to ratify their first national collective agreement since 1992...
Health insurers are to be commended for raising some interesting challenges and encouraging debate but unfortunately they miss the boat on solutions...
The forthcoming charity hospital in Christchurch
The reported overcrowding of neonatal units highlights the serious need for effective workforce planning for all public hospital and related services...
Senior doctors want DHBs to drop their bullying tactic of ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ to their national collective agreement negotiations with the Nurses Organisation...
The responses of the National and ACT parties to the Auckland District Health Board’s initiative to relieve pressure on its emergency department suggest that the silly season has come early...
The professional misconduct charge against Dr Tom O’Flynn shows how at risk and vulnerable senior doctors are over management failures...
The reported plummeting elective surgery rates at the Canterbury District Health Board is alarming...
The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board is shifting the risk of bad clinical outcomes from itself to patients...
Senior doctors congratulate the government for its decision to significantly increase funding for primary care...
“The punitive awarding of financial penalties and costs against the eye surgeons in the Southland case provides an unfortunate but timely warning...
The Canterbury District Health Board must listen to and act on the criticisms by senior doctors of its management restructuring proposal...
Doctors and nurses are the 'meat in the sandwich' over the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board's financial blow-out...
"We are disappointed to learn of the resignation of Nelson Marlborough District Health Board Chief Executive, Glenys Baldick," said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today.
"If the concerns over productivity are to be overcome then public hospitals need a new culture,"
"Senior doctors wish nurses the best in their ballot over whether to initiate negotiations for a national collective agreement with district health boards,"...
