Media Statements 2006
The decision of the government to amend the health sector code of good faith to confirm and clarify its original intention is to be applauded and Minister of Labour Ruth Dyson is commended for her positive initiative...
District health boards are exploiting the vulnerability of its low paid health workers forcing them to take limited strike action today...
District health boards have bungled the laboratory workers collective agreement negotiations creating a debacle with serious risks of permanent disabilities and possible deaths to patients...
Senior doctors working at Wanganui Hospital
Senior doctors have referred the continued impasse in their protracted national collective agreement negotiations with district health boards to mediation...
Senior doctors are very concerned that services provided by the Otago District Health Board is facing death by a 1,000 cuts...
Senior doctors have overwhelmingly voted to hold unprecedented national stopwork meetings if the impasse in their national collective agreement negotiations with district health boards continues...
The Whanganui District Health Board has bungled its provisional decision to privatise its hospital laboratory...
Senior doctors welcome the decision of the Hawkes Bay District Health Board over the awarding of its community testing laboratory contract...
The government should use part of its massive fiscal surpluses to rescue our financially squeezed and devalued public hospitals...
The government must listen to the expert advice of the College of Pathologists over the future of laboratories in New Zealand...
Senior doctors intend to be more forthright and critical over their concerns about government and district health board performance in the health system...
The government’s mishandling of health policy is contributing to its dramatic opinion poll slump...
The government’s triumphant announcement yesterday about increased public hospital productivity is justification for district health boards supporting good salary increases for senior doctors...
The government is giving conflicting messages over privatisation in the related areas of accident compensation and health...
The Wairarapa District Health Board is to be commended for its initiative in organising a blitz on waiting lists for first specialist assessments...
The increase in health insurance reported by New Zealand
Our case before the Employment Relations Authority due to be held later this week seeking to halt the intention of the Otago and Southland DHB’s to privatise their hospital laboratories has been withdrawn...
The announcement that the special cataract initiative is running ahead of target is good news...
The whole viability of the possible privatisation of the Nelson Marlborough public hospital laboratories is threatened by the decision of the three Auckland
Health boss John Peters, Nelson Marlborough DHB chief executive, should stop making personal attacks on experts who are critical of the proposed privatisation of the Nelson Hospital
The appointment of Stephen McKernan as the Director-General of Health is welcome...
The Health Ministry’s report of improved financial performance by district health boards should assist salary negotiations with health unions...
Struggles over patient access to public hospital services are a major factor behind the government’s dramatic fall in the latest opinion poll...
Large increases in Australian specialist salaries will pose a serious challenge for New Zealand
The Otago and Southland DHBs are continuing to behave in a fiscally irresponsible way over their decision today to recommend to the Minister of Health the privatisation of its hospital lab oratories...
Preventing patients from getting their first specialist assessments is dangerous and risky...
Health Minister Pete Hodgson’s key address is welcome and positive but we still need a strategy to address the health needs that we are struggling to provide and are not providing...
The due diligence process adopted by the Otago and Southland District Health Boards over their proposal to privatise their hospital laboratories is very suspect...
Health Minister Pete Hodgson was unfair in what amounted to an accusation that Hawkes Bay senior doctors (and managers) were being unethical in their handling of patients referred by general practitioners for their first specialist assessment...
New Zealand urgently needs a health professional led strategy for patients who are being dumped off public hospital waiting lists...
It is a serious worry that a private company, Southern Community Laboratory Services, has attempted to block the appointment to a much needed specialist haematology position with the Otago District Health Board...
The Otago District Health Board is signalling further disruptive top-down decision-making and privatisation if the government approves its recommendation to privatise the hospital laboratories in Otago and Southland...
Union membership of senior doctors continues to grow...
New Zealand needs to provide a new employment option if it is to help avoid the increasing risk of a general practitioner workforce crisis...
Senior doctors have the solution for the funding of overseas recruitment...
The Government’s response to the recommendation from the Otago and Southland district health boards to privatise their hospital laboratories will be a signal to the rest of the country about the future direction of public hospitals...
Too many district health boards are being irresponsible and negative over the importance of allowing senior doctors to meet professional guidelines...
The Otago and Southland district health boards are behaving irresponsibly in deciding to recommend to government that its public hospital laboratories should be privatising...
The admission by the Auckland District Health Board that patients being treated on its waiting list are sicker now than what they were five years ago is alarming but not surprising...
