Health NZ will meet with the Palmerston North community after the region lost its last permanent gastroenterologist, leaving the service without a resident specialist.
Patients are facing longer waits for appointments and procedures, while GPs say access to specialist advice has become increasingly difficult.
Health NZ claims that locum doctors are keeping essential services running and recruitment is continuing.
However, clinicians warn the ongoing shortage risks further delays to diagnoses and treatment, including for bowel cancer, with concerns about the future of gastroenterology services in the lower North Island. A public meeting will be held today at 5.30pm at the Massey University Sports and Events Centre. Read more at RNZ and NZ Herald.
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Yep, I wont say who but I did speak with someone from the hospital and the comments were not positive. Lots of problems, with patients wait too long for treatment. Of course, that’s the situation in NZ in general with successive globalist governments under funding healthcare, instead wasting tax payer dollars on things that are far less important. Small wonder cancer is on average, five times more survivable in Australia, than NZ.
This is what continued ideological driven recruitment and professional certification results in….qualified medicos retire early, no one trained stays, or they simply move into other professions.
I wonder how many immigrant gastro specialists are looking at the job vacancy ad and saying to themselves I know nothing about te teriti and aren’t maori and can’t speak maori so why would I apply?
What, she didnt like the mandatory maori baloney?
You can still ‘go private’ for colonoscopies…especially IF you have health insurance.
Another option is to activate the NZDF Reserve Force Medical Corps for 2 weeks at a time every 6 months so that the backlog in public care can be cleared under a triage scenario.
After all, the NZDF is already funded, and the ‘continuation training under Triage conditions’ is already paid for via NZDF funding.
OR-
NZ can upgrade the qualifications and offer next-level education for those already in the health care arens, ie-
Nurses become Nurse Practitioners with a path to being a GP or Specialist;
Medics upgrading to Nurses,
Expanded Ambo Services that can diagnose and operate on an emergency basis in life-threatening circumstances.
OR-
Sending patients overseas, as many are doing now.
THE CRISIS AT THE DHB’S?
Get rid of the Old Boy / Old Girl Networks, ie Doctors / Specialist wives landing jobs at the DHB’s which is clearly Nepotism, with many of those ‘wives’ / ‘partners’ not even qualified to perform administrative, secretarial or reception duties; they’re just these because hubby is a Doctor, etc. and are INCOMPETENT while calling out the self-importance to their minimal (if any at all…) ‘qualification(s).
Get rid of the ‘Service Managers’,
Have a Union Steward on call for employees who are suffering abuse and / or threats at the workplace.
Policies that stop Middle School-like conflicting and competitive behaviours that target and bully others
Have the DHB Board Members list their ‘Conflicts of Interest’…
Free parking at the Hospitals & Clinics.
Last but not least-the culture of bullying in NZ is seen as a sort of Darwinistic ‘survival of the fittest’ mentality.
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THIS IS THE MAIN REASON WHY MANY ARE LEAVING NEW ZEALAND IN THE DROVES- THEY’RE FED-UP WITH PETTY MIDDLE SCHOOL BULLYING BEHAVIOURS IN THE WORKPLACE AND IN THE SCHOOLS.!!!
AND-
Erica Stanford knows this because I SENT HER THE INFO!!!
Another thought which might be happening; are the Gangs running the health Care System here ?