https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/592126/health-nz-sending-more-eye-operations-to-private-sector-under-long-term-contracts Kaitiaki Hauora contended the panel tender signalled a clear shift to privatisation.

Its chair - and ex-chair of HNZ - Rob Campbell - said the move was qualitatively and quantitatively "significant" for community eye-health.

He called the panel a case of "contract fishing ... cast it out and see what we catch. It is very dangerous as the bidder can start to control the process". #nzpol #VoteHealth #healthcrisis #privatisation #WhereIsTheMinister #enrol #vote #EnrolVote

Our health system belongs to us the people, but it’s design, funding, management and delivery have become increasingly and divisively politicised. If we care about publicly provided healthcare, we need to fight for it.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2603/S00088/kaitiaki-hauora-together-for-public-health-a-powerful-voice-for-the-health-system.htm

#nzpol #VoteHealth #KaitiakiHauora #PublicHealth

"We're short of RNs [registered nurses], we're short of healthcare assistants, we're short of doctors, we're short of midwives and Te Whatu Ora and this government don't seem to be addressing it. We need a massive increase in funding in public healthcare." Step up Min Brown

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/589208/christchurch-hospital-staffing-like-moving-the-deck-chairs-around-on-the-titanic-worker-says

#nzpol #healthcrisis #VoteHealth

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00048/whats-the-difference-between-private-management-of-public-hospitals-and-a-perfumed-turd.htm

So what is the difference between PPPs and private management of public hospitals and a ‘perfumed turd’? Somewhere between very, very little and none at all.

The turd is what it is (unable to be shined); the perfume is the rhetoric used by Serco and other aspiring private profiteers to provide the rationalisation for ideological predisposed governments.

#nzpol #VoteHealth #PPP #privatisation

The trick was to keep adding on the previous year's increase as "new money", ignoring the fact that it would have been eaten up by inflation.

"It's a very creative ploy that one, so I think we need to see it for what it is," he said.

"All governments do this sort of thing, but in the scheme of things, this one is pretty brazen."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/562513/government-s-health-boost-less-than-claimed-expert-says

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