As New Zealand hospitals faced a growing financial crisis, Health New Zealand leaders gathered at a three-day national conference in March at Wellington’s Sky Stadium, with a catering bill of $60,000.
The event, titled Connect 24, cost $9,200 on canapés alone, while lunch and breakfast added nearly $52,000 to the total.
The timing of the event was controversial, as Health NZ had recently warned Health Minister Shane Reti of a looming half-billion-dollar budget overrun due to nurse recruitment. Despite concerns, Health NZ defended the conference, calling it a one-off meeting aimed at aligning leadership with the government’s priorities.
Amid criticisms over spending during a financial crisis, Reti told state media that Health NZ must prioritise frontline services.
The conference’s workshops on financial productivity and transparency, while still considered relevant, faced scrutiny as several leaders involved have since lost their jobs or been reassigned following Health NZ’s financial deficit, now exceeding a billion dollars.
The event has sparked questions about Health NZ’s financial discipline, particularly as hospitals continue to struggle under financial strain. Health NZ has since assured that no similar conferences will be held in the current fiscal environment.
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Nothing but the best for these socialists, I’m pretty sure these bosses receive excellent renumeration too. Some of these government bureaucrats get close to a mere mill.
Maybe more Managment must be culled as it is usually those who waste money the most because they feel entitled while scrutinising those who need to spend it the most.
Has Shane Reti got any control at all over HealthNZ, or does he squeak his protestations in line with ‘something is being done’. Or is going to be done. Or might be done. Here’s something that should be done: make the organisers pay the money back by deducting from their salaries! They will think more carefully about their spending if they know it may eventually come out of their own wallets. Better still, sack the lot of them.
How can a shindig costing $60,000 have anything to do with aligning HealthNZ leadership with government priorities? Why didn’t Shane Reti send each of them an email with bullet points outlining the programme
and appoint a commissar to oversee that what he wants done is done? And an auditor to keep spending within budget?
Where is Ashley Bloomfield located in this fiasco – you know, the one who gave no exemptions to the common people, but plenty to MPs and their families, and to many others especially ‘stakeholders’ and who ordered all Councils to fluoridate their water? Oh that’s right, he got a Knighthood for that like his mate Ardern.
Knighthoods are good. They show us without a doubt which side the recipients work for.
Knighthoods should be done with real swords…and a real blow to the neck of Public Enemies.
Knighthoods WILL be done with real swords…and a real blow to the neck of Public Enemies.
Be aware Blummenfelt aka Ashley. (Can’t even get that name spelt right). Is on the prowl gaslighting the Kiwi public by saying that NZ is very close to a security risk with Covid infections and there should be a health response. What is he suggesting? Locking down the country for forced vaccinations?
With this news I feel very sad. Anywhere else in the world people are getting on with their lives the best way they can. Trying very hard without hindrance from an interfering govt.
NZ, a country isolated and with a small population, ideal for ‘tests’.
I think I can safely say that most people here are unjabbed, me too, and only just recently I had a bit of phlegm in the throat for a couple of days a week or so ago. I gargled with iodine and water and it went away. That has been the only time since early 2019 that I had cause to remedy anything like that.
The only risk to us is paid off globalists like Ashley. They will NEVER a get this country locked down or vaccinated ever again. The parliament protest will look like a picnic if they try that crap on again,
“The parliament protest will look like a picnic if they try that crap on again”.
I hope so. That’s what I want to hear!
Those of us who weren’t able to make it last time will make dam sure we get there next time. We will sail there if we have to.
You may have experienced shedding
Contracted whilst being around vaccinated zombies?
I’m not sure. I Hope not. Likely to be the cooler air at night with AC on. Lol. It’s always hot in the tropics.
Anyway, I just am forever hoping that that medical tyranny ends and they stop forcing the jabs in New Zealand. Everywhere else people have moved on.
The agenda is evil I know.
Not just Zombies, but screen-addicted Zombies!
This is how the Deep Socialist State tells everyone who is really in charge.
The corporate state mantra, “cost no objective, just put it on the tab”.
Hypocrisy in plain sight
What did You expect?
Put that on the long growing list
Astonishing but predictable behaviour from those who peddle medical tyranny with consummate, enriched, and far removed ease.
Meanwhile, a multitude of genuflecting New Zealanders, wrecked as a nation, appear sickened and dying at excess rates beyond the mean, rates never previously seen but since the mandated and continued as mRNA/LNP shots. Elsewhere, ethical doctors, scientists, nurses and so many others remain excluded from the workforce for non-compliance with the unpredictably lethal, useless shots.
New Zealand reaps what it sows: the moral, ethical, economic, social and biological dead-ends proscribed by the DIE tyrannical globalist ideology intent the evisceration of the soul of a country.
This is very similar to MoE-types (ie teachers, school staff, office workers of the MoE, etc.) who I observed taking the day off to attend Autism Conferences ($250 per person…) where they socialised with each other during the morning tea, mid-day lunch and afternoon tea breaks.
The suggestions and recommendations that the conference(s) offered in the 5 major NZ cities were never implemented by those attending.
In fact, we noted that when our family was spotted at the conferences by several school staff, the dirty, nasty looks were in mass-quantity, the mouths were running, and our child treated with further contempt by the schools.
In the end, we Home-schooled as recommended by the psychologist.
I would be interested how many attended. If it was 10,000 attendees then it was a deal however I suspect it may have only been less than 100. Anyone know the total?
I could find no info on the net.
Looks like they scrubbed.
Murder is very profitable these days
Another scandalous, wasteful government, that treat public office like a free for all…….
Last month I got a sausage from the suicide prevention team on the main street. I held out my $5 note but the dude said, “It’s free, mete.” “Do you want another one?” I was too gobsmacked to say “ok” but it was the best thing. What a great tradition- the sausage sizzle. Canapés be like so air New Zealand.
Swine at the public trough.
The Romans used to have little boys under the tables
Horrible gready toe rags, just like all politicians
They flagrantly display their arrogance and contempt for mainline New Zealanders with their faux ‘elitist’ self-aggrandisment, rewarding themselves with NZ$60K VIP-seeking events.
Nothing will be done in the Health Sector, and the Deagel Forecast reflect this!
Where is the Ombudsman and Governor-General to hold these bastards accountable?
Redundancies will have no effect on these quasi-criminals, as the pay-outs for becoming redundant will carry these self-important morons well into the years, equaling what they would have been making had they not been made redundant.
Maybe the Lodge will now get some new carpet as demanded / required of it’s redundant HealthNZ membership.
This kind of sanctimonious behaviour happens everywhere. It happened at my work too which isn’t a Govt Dept. While Management are laying people off to cut costs, the same people are laying on fancy food for Directors at the monthly Board meetings. Funny how the people in the top jobs never have to sacrifice anything?!
We need Elon Musk over to conduct audits
Now that would be embarrassing
For some
Sick fks! What’s the bet none of them are jabbed so what do they care – not one fing bit disgusting pieces of turd! Thank God I’m not jabbed and don’t need a doctor, they are sick murdering corrupt criminals!