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The Hospital Dunedin needs?

Written By: - Date published: 10:19 am, September 28th, 2024 - 69 comments

The question has to be asked, can we trust National to do anything that it has promised?

Bye, Bye Health!

Written By: - Date published: 12:59 pm, September 26th, 2024 - 45 comments

NZ has already spent $1bn on thin air (Kiwirail ferries), $70bn on roads, and $35bn on tax cuts so no to your hospitals and investments!

Lester Levy, $320,000 Part time Health NZ Commissioner: “It’s not for me to fix everything”

Written By: - Date published: 2:12 pm, September 19th, 2024 - 16 comments

Lester Levy claims he is working so hard it’s probably not good for his health. Meanwhile, he failed to bring financials to the Health Select Committee while explaining he was doing well on cutting costs – and would continue to do so.

Is Casey Costello Corrupt?

Written By: - Date published: 3:15 pm, August 26th, 2024 - 27 comments

Casey Costello and the Coalition government have already halved tobacco excise at a cost of up to $216mn. Today RNZ reports there remain more questions on who wrote her Ministerial papers begging for tobacco industry benefits.

Lester Levy Asks Kiwis To Pray For Him – Again

Written By: - Date published: 6:52 pm, August 18th, 2024 - 33 comments

Lester Levy again asks Kiwis to pray for him. But who will pray for us, Dr Levy?

Lester Levy: “Significant, Not Painless” Changes Needed

Written By: - Date published: 10:08 am, August 16th, 2024 - 14 comments

Lester Levy gave a keynote address this weak signalling painful, strong medicine is needed for Health NZ. But his claims contradict frontline staff and experts.

Mountain Tui: New Zealanders are now dying from an underfunded health system

Written By: - Date published: 12:41 pm, August 5th, 2024 - 5 comments

After months of warnings from doctors, nurses and hospitals, a Northland patient is dead after no doctors were present at the hospital. The budget cuts and chosen austerity measures are hurting us all. Here’s more.

Luxon is accused of spreading “disinformation”

Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, August 1st, 2024 - 21 comments

The PM of NZ is accused of spreading intentional disinformation on Health NZ as the evidence piles up against the Coalition government. Here’s how it went down.

Woefully misinformed or intentionally mangling the truth?

Written By: - Date published: 9:24 am, July 30th, 2024 - 26 comments

Senior medical figures have questioned the accuracy of what the Government is saying about the health crisis in Northland. And in an example of unbelievably bad timing it has been revealed that the Goverment put aside $216 million to fund a exise duty reduction for Phillip Morris.

Mountain Tui: Who will hold Chris Luxon and Shane Reti accountable for the Health NZ deception?

Written By: - Date published: 5:20 pm, July 29th, 2024 - 21 comments

Since Shane Reti and Christopher Luxon announced the Health NZ cost “blowout” and an unexpected deficit, the truth has emerged, and it’s all becomes stranger than fiction. Which claims were accurate? And which seemed to be a case of misrepresentation?

They are going to privatise health, aren’t they

Written By: - Date published: 4:28 pm, July 28th, 2024 - 50 comments

This Government continues its trend to resembling something akin to Liz Truss’s rule of England. And Health is clearly among its targets.

Mountain Tui: Can we talk about New Zealand’s health system?

Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, July 23rd, 2024 - 96 comments

Christopher Luxon and Shane Reti took the extraordinary step of removing the Health NZ Board and replacing it with a Health Commissioner. Why did they do that and will it help the real issues facing our health system?

Mountain Tui: Crashing New Zealand’s health system is not the way to prosperity, Prime Minister

Written By: - Date published: 2:44 pm, July 16th, 2024 - 15 comments

The drumbeat of health warnings continues from hospitals, doctors and nurses. But is the Government prepared to listen?

Remember that time we had a global pandemic?

Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, July 16th, 2024 - 5 comments

how’s it going five years on?

The great Pharmac backflip

Written By: - Date published: 9:55 am, June 25th, 2024 - 17 comments

The focus groups have spoken and the Government has completed its 360 degree backflip and decided to fund Pharmac so that National can meet its pledge to introduce 13 new cancer drugs.

The Big Budget Backflip *

Written By: - Date published: 2:57 pm, June 3rd, 2024 - 10 comments

* or is it?

Celebrating the ending of a policy that no longer exists

Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, May 15th, 2024 - 31 comments

As part of its coalition agreement NZ First is wanting to end a policy that has already ended. And the Government is struggling to work out what to do.

A one term Government?

Written By: - Date published: 10:16 am, May 5th, 2024 - 86 comments

The Government is less than 12 months away from a change in the Deputy Prime Ministership and the transition will be a smooth one. Labour needs to be getting ready now. Because for the first time in this Country’s history this could be a one term National led Government.

The Cass Review reader: investigations into the treatment of gender dysphoric children and youth

Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, April 15th, 2024 - 144 comments

The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.

It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.

Back on Track?

Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, April 7th, 2024 - 71 comments

National campaigned on the promise of getting the country back on track. How is it going?

Hoatu he tumanako ki a rātou

Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, March 21st, 2024 - 20 comments

Grant Robertson has given his valedictory speech in Parliament.

What does the Government have against Maori health?

Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, February 29th, 2024 - 12 comments

National spent much of yesterday ramming through under urgency and without a select committee process two measures which will have detrimental effects on Māori health.

Coffee and Cigarettes

Written By: - Date published: 2:20 pm, February 3rd, 2024 - 12 comments

Coffee and Cigarettes is an in-depth study of the human condition by Jim Jarmusch.

The Apparatus behind the Curtain

Written By: - Date published: 1:54 pm, February 2nd, 2024 - 6 comments

The release from the Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa around tobacco industry interference was a glimpse behind the curtain into a troubling reality.

It has been a long week for Casey Costello

Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, February 2nd, 2024 - 46 comments

Recent disclosure of the actions of associate Minister of Health Casey Costello raises the extraordinary possibility that British American Tobacco may be having an undue influence on the setting of the Government’s smoking policies.

The Government is planning to cut tobacco excise duty

Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, January 25th, 2024 - 78 comments

Hot on the heels of the Government’s walk back from the previous Government’s smoke free policies is the disclosure that the Government is considering halting increases to excise duties on tobacco. And the Government tried to hide this.

Peak NZ Liberal

Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, December 23rd, 2023 - 69 comments

As National dismantles with speed some of the institutional reforms made by the last Labour Government the concern is that we may have witnessed the peak in progressive influence.

Is the Coalition Government Back Jabbing Māori?

Written By: - Date published: 4:10 pm, December 22nd, 2023 - 19 comments

The coalition government robs Pita to pay Paora to appease its voter base.

About that Speech from the Throne

Written By: - Date published: 8:33 pm, December 6th, 2023 - 45 comments

The new Government blows the dog-whistle like the pied piper.

Chris Bishop can’t count

Written By: - Date published: 12:26 pm, December 3rd, 2023 - 48 comments

This morning on Q&A and despite being pulled up on it Chris Bishop repeated National’s claim that under the Smokefree reforms there would only be allowed one tobacco retail shop in Northland when there would actually be at least 34.

Just One Term

Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, December 2nd, 2023 - 74 comments

There is every reason to believe National will be chucked out in 2026.