Southland Hospital is losing both of its urologists. This means patients from Southland will need to travel to Dunedin, where there's already a shortage of urologists.

Health NZ is making the usual soothing noises... 'our focus is on patients' while doing nothing practical to sort the problem.

Who remembers Luxon claiming that National's massive cuts to the health service wouldn't affect front line operations? Because urology is as front line as it gets.

https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/urologists-exit-puts-southland-crisis

#Southland #Hospital #NZHealth #NZPol

manage my health: you can't come in unless you update your password

also manage my health: what's update password button, precious? #ManageMyHealth #NZpol #nzhealth

"But it was the younger adults (18 to 44 years old) who had the worst scores for cognition, working memory, fatigue, sleep, anxiety, and depression. The scores for middle-aged adults were slightly better across most measures, while older adults generally performed the best.
...
“It is not usual or normal ... This is a time when young people should be cognitively at their very best."

#covid #LongCovid #NZHealth #Aotearoa #NZPol

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/offered-rest-home-care-at-24-the-lonely-plight-of-young-kiwis-with-long-covid/

this is exactly why it's the EASY operations that are being outsourced to the private sector—to induce public doctors and nurses to go private and to hollow out the public system until it's all husk and no corn

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/561035/public-doctors-will-quit-if-easy-operations-are-outsourced-to-private-hospitals-radiologist-says

#NZpol #NZhealth

Wow, a ten year bipartisan plan. Sounds sensible. Almost like the Climate Commission.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360629760/revealed-sir-ashley-bloomfields-radical-plan-fix-health-system

#NZPol #NZHealthCrisis #NZHealth

"I am not wearing rose-tinted glasses. I had a very good experience; many don’t. But if we only talk about crises and things that go wrong, we miss the thousands of things that go right. If we don’t talk about them, we are in danger of taking them for granted, and what we take for granted can more easily be taken away. An anonymous mass of crisis is easier to chip away at than thousands of single, caring interactions with singularly dedicated people."

#NZHealth #NZPol

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/30-11-2024/god-defend-the-breast-screeners-of-new-zealand

Some consultants and contractors have been paid $NZMs for their work on #HealthIT.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535125/health-nz-72m-spent-on-outsourced-staff-for-single-it-project-amid-staff-cuts

Despite this most #NZHealth Computer Projects are still unfinished. With #HealthNZ cutting IT staff and project funding it looks like those projects may never be finished. #NZpol
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/534028/revealed-impact-of-hospitals-forced-to-give-back-millions-for-tech-upgrades

Fingers crossed Health NZ's project to pay $2B owed to current and former staff gets a move on not a shut down!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535022/health-nz-s-project-to-pay-2b-back-to-staff-makes-slow-progress

Wow, there's a surprise. More stuff for hospitals, but no extra money. Cut 1.4b off the budget, and fit in these other things.

Yet, somehow there's still budget to outsource to private clinics?

"Despite this, Reti said there was capacity to lift the volume of procedures outsourced to private hospitals within the current budget."

Those people who have a stake in private hospitals must be happy about that.

#NZHealth #NZPol

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350412028/more-beds-theatres-and-workforce-coming-no-extra-money-health-minister

So, NZ is happy to protest when the governments of other countries take away the civil rights liberties of their civilians but not when it happens in New Zealand itself.
Cool, cool, cool.

#nzhealth #newzealand #nz